Miraculous escape: Driver jumps out seconds before crane topples over and crushes van in Sengkang

The fallen crane can be seen lying on its side, with its boom stretching across the width of the road and resting on a white van. - PHOTO: ST READER

SINGAPORE (The Straits Tims/ANN): The driver of a van jumped out of his vehicle in the nick of time before a crane fell on it and left it in a crumpled mess in Sengkang.

Eyewitnesses The Straits Times spoke to said they saw the accident unfold on the afternoon of April 9, at a construction site in Punggol Road, near the junction of Compassvale Street.