A bus driver has been killed and 16 others have been injured in two separate crashes involving eight vehicles within two hours on Hong Kong’s San Tin Highway.
Police said on Thursday that an accident involving two cars and a taxi occurred on the side of the highway headed to Sheung Shui at 9.51pm the previous day.
Eight people suffered minor injuries and were sent to North District Hospital in Sheung Shui.
In another accident on the same highway, a 49-year-old public light bus driver was killed and eight others were injured in a five-vehicle collision.
Police said the driver, a mainland Chinese man, was travelling towards Sheung Shui at around 11.30pm when he allegedly failed to brake in time and crashed into the back of a medium goods vehicle that had stopped because of traffic ahead.
The medium goods vehicle was pushed forward and crashed into the rear of a car, which in turn hit a light goods vehicle in front. The bus then collided with another medium goods vehicle.
