Hong Kong police have arrested a 69-year-old taxi driver after he allegedly knocked down and killed a 34-year-old woman in a shopping district in the early hours of Saturday. The incident happened at around 2.12am near Park Lane Shopper’s Boulevard in Tsim Sha Tsui. The taxi driver was travelling along Nathan Road towards Mong Kok when he struck the 34-year-old woman as she was crossing Granville Road. The woman sustained serious injuries and was rushed unconscious to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...
More than 20 people were injured in a traffic accident involving two public buses and a truck in Hong Kong’s New Territories, temporarily closing an arterial road on Thursday morning. A minibus, a double-decker bus and a truck collided on Fanling Highway at around 8am, trapping the minibus driver, who was later rescued by firefighters. Photos from the scene show the front of the Route 44A minibus, which plies between Sheung Shui and Tuen Mun, severely crushed. Police said 18 passengers on the...
A cyclist was seriously injured after being struck by a KMB double-decker bus in Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. The 60-year-old man was hit at around 2.50pm outside North Kwai Chung Public Library on Shek Yam Road. He was trapped beneath the front wheels of the bus and had to be freed by firefighters and paramedics. He was rushed unconscious to Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan. Images from the scene showed the man’s lower body pinned under the bus, with a long skid mark on the road. The bus...
At least 10 children among the dead as a packed truck carrying families returning from Pakistan flips on major highway.
At least 24 people were injured on Monday afternoon after a double-decker bus collided with a highway maintenance vehicle on Hong Kong’s Tsing Kwai Highway. Police received a report at 2.05pm that a KMB route 960 double-decker bus, travelling from Wan Chai to Tuen Mun, collided with a maintenance truck equipped with a flashing arrow sign near Princess Margaret Hospital. The force said the crash left the bus driver trapped in his cabin. He was later freed by rescue personnel. The driver and 23...
Bangkok residents were digesting yet another avoidable tragedy on Monday after eight people were killed when a goods train ploughed into a city bus at a busy level crossing on Saturday afternoon. The train driver, who later tested positive for drugs, had also not received a valid operator’s licence from the Department of Rail Transport. A fireball erupted as the train struck the bus at the Asok-Dindaeng intersection, in a notoriously congested part of Thailand’s capital, igniting the vehicle’s...
An elderly man died after falling on board a bus in Hong Kong on Saturday. Police said they received a report at 8.50am that a man in his 70s had fallen while the bus was near 125 Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui. The bus was operating on KMB route 5 between Fu Shan Estate and Star Ferry. Emergency personnel arrived at the scene and took him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Park, where he was later certified dead. Police classified the case as a fatal traffic accident. The South China...
Ten people have been injured in a crash involving a truck and a bus outside a shopping centre in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong. Police said they received a report of the crash in Sau Mau Ping at about 6.20am on Tuesday, where a truck collided with a KMB double-decker bus, leaving eight passengers and the two drivers with mild injuries. The collision occurred outside Po Tat Shopping Centre on Po Lam Road, the force said. Part of Po Lam Road towards Sau Mau Ping Road was closed but reopened at...