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Oscar Liu

A 65-year-old taxi driver has been arrested after his vehicle collided with a pedestrian, who later died in hospital, marking Hong Kong’s second fatal crash involving an elderly cabby in less than a week.
The pedestrian, 87, died after he was struck and trapped beneath the taxi while crossing the road under a footbridge in Tung Chung on Monday.
The fatal accident came five days after police arrested a 70-year-old taxi driver who killed a woman, 39, and severely injured her dental clinic colleague, 31, after losing control of his vehicle and mounting a pavement in Ngau Tau Kok. The 31-year-old woman died on Monday.
At 6.23am on Monday, police received a report of the crash at the junction of Man Tung Road and Kin Tung Road, near the Caribbean Coast residential estate. The taxi was travelling on Man Tung Road towards Kowloon at the time.

According to photos from the scene, the front of the taxi was dented, with the vehicle stopping near a pedestrian crossing.
Firefighters rushed to extricate the victim, who had sustained severe injuries and was unconscious.
He was taken to North Lantau Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7.21am.
The driver has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death and is being held for questioning, according to the force.
An investigation by the New Territories South special traffic investigation team is under way.
Man Tung Road is the main road cutting through Tung Chung North and is lined with densely packed residential complexes and schools.
Andrew Spires, 44, a Tung Chung resident who works in marketing, said that he had contacted the Transport Department about the crossing in June 2024 after witnessing traffic incidents happening in the same spot.
“They sent someone out to go and have a look at the road and the junction. They said the road is straight and clear with good visibility – they didn’t see that there was a problem,” he said.
“In the end, I used my own money to make some signs, which I hung up before the junction on both sides of the road.”

On April 18, a private car struck a female pedestrian outside Coastal Skyline estate on Man Tung Street, shattering the vehicle’s windscreen and injuring the victim.
In December 2023, a coach failed to brake in time at the busy intersection of Ying Tung, Man Tung and Ying Hei roads, hitting and injuring a woman who was crossing the street.
“It’s always on the same side of the road as well, because you can’t really see the cars coming around due to the bushes and [trees] grown there,” Spires said.
A government spokesman said the Civil Engineering and Development Department was implementing a temporary traffic management scheme for its construction works at the site. It had been reviewed and approved by the Transport Department and police before implementation, he added.
“The pedestrian crossing concerned is currently not a traffic-accident black site and the accidents that previously happened at the pedestrian crossing mainly involved driver contributory factors, such as driving inattentively,” he said.
The latest incident on Monday marked the second fatal crash involving an elderly taxi driver in less than a week.
The department earlier said it was reviewing consultations with stakeholders to finalise plans to conduct health checks on cabbies and other commercial drivers.
The proposal to lower the age threshold for mandatory medical certification for drivers was delayed until the second half of the year.


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Accident marks city’s second fatal crash involving elderly cabby in less than one week


Accident marks city’s second fatal crash involving elderly cabby in less than one week.


Taxi driver, 65, arrested after crash kills pedestrian in Hong Kong

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Accident marks city’s second fatal crash involving elderly cabby in less than one week