Double-decker bus stopped just 90cm away from 11-year-old boy: Hong Kong family recount lucky escape from Sham Shui Po crash
Bus stopped less than a metre away from family of three, hitting a number of other pedestrians
Eleven-year-old Kwok Kai-yin was waiting to cross the road with his parents on Friday night when he heard the roaring engine of a bus and saw the double-decker “flying” towards him before it stopped just 90 centimetres away from him seconds later.
“I saw the bus flying into my face and I immediately stepped back,” the boy said, adding the bus stopped less than a metre away from him.
“I was shocked but I was not afraid,” said the boy, who had cuts and bruises on his right arm and both legs.
Speaking from Kwong Wah Hospital where they were admitted, his father, Kwok Yuen-fai, 56, recalled the bus came towards them so fast that he did not even have time to grab his son standing in front of him.