A bankrupt businesswoman has been jailed for three years for dangerous driving causing death after a trial in which video footage from a taxi at the scene of an accident showed she had lied to police.
The Mercedes-Benz driven by Lam Ying-yu, 40, hit the back of a taxi at the site of road works, sending it cannoning into three workers including Chow Shu-tak, 61, who died.
The District Court heard that Lam initially told police she had stopped at a road junction before setting off again and hitting the taxi.
But the footage, from a camera mounted on another taxi not involved in the accident, showed she did not stop.
'As evidenced by the video evidence, what she told police was a lie,' Judge Susana D'Almada Remedios said when sentencing Lam yesterday.
'The video left no other option to the defendant but to change her original account to police that she had stopped.
'Without this video, this case would have been hard-fought.'