falling tree killed woman @ bukit batok nature park
this morning, the car park at bukit batok nature park was unusually empty. normally, it would be packed with cars but today, there were only three cars in the car park at the time when i drove past. and one of the three cars was a police car. as i was driving to lorong sesuai, i noticed a number of vehicles parked along the service road.
the place where i normally parked my car was also quite bare of vehicles. on other days, i would have to be lucky to find a space. i put it down to the rain that fell early in the morning. i did not take the usual route because the ground was damp. when i reached the service road, i knew something was amiss. there were seven cars: four police cars and three cars belonging to officers from the national park board.
if it was just fallen trees, it need not have to involve the police, and so many of them at that. anyway, i carried on with my morning walk, diverting from my usual route. i did not want to walk the small paths. the number of people at the park was a fraction of the normal crowd.
as i was finishing my walk, then i saw it. a huge tree had fallen and someone had used a white plastic sheet to cover something on the ground. i suspected then that somebody had been hit and killed by the falling tree.
this morning, the car park at bukit batok nature park was unusually empty. normally, it would be packed with cars but today, there were only three cars in the car park at the time when i drove past. and one of the three cars was a police car. as i was driving to lorong sesuai, i noticed a number of vehicles parked along the service road.
the place where i normally parked my car was also quite bare of vehicles. on other days, i would have to be lucky to find a space. i put it down to the rain that fell early in the morning. i did not take the usual route because the ground was damp. when i reached the service road, i knew something was amiss. there were seven cars: four police cars and three cars belonging to officers from the national park board.
if it was just fallen trees, it need not have to involve the police, and so many of them at that. anyway, i carried on with my morning walk, diverting from my usual route. i did not want to walk the small paths. the number of people at the park was a fraction of the normal crowd.
as i was finishing my walk, then i saw it. a huge tree had fallen and someone had used a white plastic sheet to cover something on the ground. i suspected then that somebody had been hit and killed by the falling tree.
this was confirmed when i heard the news on the radio. a woman in her thirties was killed and two other women were injured.
coincidentally, a few weeks back i had been talking to a contractor outside the moe dairy farm campsite. he was pointing out to me the danger posed by the raintree. according to him, these trees which normally grow very tall do not have deep roots and therefore tend to fall during a thunderstorm.
1 comment:
To bad about the poor woman who was killed.It seems like a very nice park.
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