Taxi driver dies after car plunges 18 metres off flyover in Ngau Tau Kok
Vehicle hit a traffic sign and then fell 18 metres between two roads, landing on its roof in a park
A taxi driver was killed when his car plunged 18 metres from a flyover in Ngau Tau Kok yesterday morning.
Police are still investigating how the car came to mount a sloping concrete road divider and then fall down the gap between the two diverging roads.
The taxi driver, Wong Siu-kong, 55, who sustained serious head injuries, was declared dead at the scene.
The accident happened at about 8.15am when Wong, who was at the end of his night shift, was driving his empty taxi on the Ngau Tau Kok Road flyover towards Choi Hung. Police investigators said that when the car approached section No33 of the road, it ran up the road divider, hit a traffic sign and plunged off the flyover.
The taxi fell 18 metres and landed on its roof in a park, crushing the roof and breaking off one of the front wheels. Wong was trapped inside the car.
A newspaper vendor was shocked. "I saw it fall down and heard a large 'bump'. Then dust was flying up."
He said it was lucky the accident happened early as there were few people in the park.