One of the founders of a prominent watersports training school died yesterday after crashing his BMW into a road divider in Tai Po.
Wakeboard School founder Johnson Hui Chung-shun, 37, was driving towards Tai Mei Tuk when he lost control of his car on Ting Kok Road near Fortune Garden at 3.30am.
The car mounted the divider, crashed into railings and knocked down a traffic sign and lights, police said.
Hui was unconscious when he was freed from the wreckage by firefighters. He was declared dead in Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital at 4.16am.
Hui set up the Wakeboard School in Tai Po three years ago along with Andrew Cheung and Ronnie Cheung. He was a wakeboarding coach and a member of the Hong Kong Water Ski Association's wakeboard team.
Andrew Cheung paid tribute to Hui, saying he was a well respected, experienced and responsible coach.
'His death is a great loss,' Cheung said, adding that Hui had made a huge contribution to the sport in the past decade.