A woman in her 60s was hit by a south-bound train at Yio Chu Kang MRT Station on Wednesday night. The elderly woman was on the train tracks when the police arrived and was pronounced dead by paramedics at about 11.50pm.
The case has been classified as an unnatural death and investigations are underway.
The incident happened at about 11:20pm and south-bound train services between Yishun and Ang Mo Kio MRT Station were disrupted, reported TODAY newspaper.
The disruption affected about 680 commuters. Train services for south-bound trains resumed at 12.42am while north-bound trains remained unaffected the whole time.
Free bus-bridging services were provided by SMRT to ferry affected passengers from Yishun to Toa Payoh MRT stations. This service continued until the end of passenger service hours.
After reading this article, the first thing that came across my mind was that SMRT definitely needs to implement safety glass on the platform especially this incident of people killed by trains have been occuring during these few months. I was quite uphappy that why SMRT havent learnt from its lesson and still refuse to implement those safety glass. Its better to be safe than to be sorry as human life is precious and we ought to seek for proper safety in public transport especially for people staying around those areas with no safety glass are in a greater risk.
All in all, I hope that SMRT would start to implement safety glass at every MRT station to protect the safety of the passengers to ensure a safe and enjoyable ride. I believe SMRT would have learnt from its lesson since once bitten twice shy. Its time for SMRT to do something about it.
- CLAIRE TEO
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