One person was injured when an 84-year-old driver mistook his car’s accelerator for the brake and mounted a pavement in Hong Kong on Sunday, according to an insider. The source said the driver was trying to stop his car from sliding forward at the car park entrance of the Kowloon City Plaza shopping centre. “He…
Two people have been sent to hospital with minor injuries after a light truck slipped down a slope and struck a private car in Hong Kong. Police were alerted to the accident at 1.20pm on Saturday. The incident took place at No 175 Shatin Pass Road, outside Wong Tai Sin’s Fat Jong Temple. The light…
Two people have been sent to hospital with minor injuries after a light truck slipped down a slope and struck a private car in Hong Kong. Police were alerted to the accident at 1.20pm on Saturday. The incident took place at No 175 Shatin Pass Road, outside Wong Tai Sin’s Fat Jong Temple. The light…
A man was slashed in a robbery attempt in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui on Thursday afternoon. Two men targeted the victim outside the Golden Crown Court building on Nathan Road, near Carnarvon Road, at around 4.40pm. The assailants attempted to steal the man’s luggage, which reportedly contained a large sum of foreign currency. During…
A Hong Kong taxi association has condemned four people who attacked a 42-year-old cab driver and damaged his belongings after they failed to flag down the vehicle. Police said on Friday that a taxi driver, surnamed Cheung, was injured in an assault at the junction of Pine Tree Hill Road and Hillwood Road in Tsim…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…
A man has been arrested for allegedly robbing and stabbing an off-duty Hong Kong police officer in Yau Ma Tei, leaving the victim with multiple knife wounds. A source said the victim, 39, was robbed at about 1.49am on Saturday, when he was walking towards Mong Kok after he had dinner in Knutsford Terrace. “When…
Three people have been injured after an out-of-control BMW car crashed into a truck and a taxi, mounted a pavement and struck two pedestrians on a busy Hong Kong street. Police said the crash took place on Tai Yau Street near the junction with Sam Chuk Street in San Po Kong at around 8.51am on…
Hong Kong must improve its training of medical school students and supervision over intern doctors, a lawmaker and a community advocate have said after repeated blunders in the city’s hospitals involving misplaced feeding tubes. The pair made the call on Friday following Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital’s report that a laxative had been delivered to…