Fifty-five people were injured, two seriously, in a three-bus collision in Wan Chai during rush hour last night.
Police said a New World First double-decker plying route 115 hit the back of a route 101 KMB bus loading passengers at a bus stop near the Tai Yau Building on Fleming Road at 7pm.
The impact sent the second bus into the back of another KMB double-decker at the stop.
It is the second crash to involve a New World First vehicle in little over a week. On November 20, two double-deckers crushed a taxi in an accident in Shau Kei Wan, killing the cabbie, two passengers in the taxi, and injuring 56. The passengers, Swede Carl Lindgren, 30; and Briton Jorge Herrena, 34, were top culinary staff at British celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's famous Fat Duck restaurant.
Many passengers on the three buses were thrown out of their seats, leaving them with head and limb injuries. Two drivers were also slightly hurt.
Most of the passengers on the buses managed to leave the vehicles and wait for help on the road.
But a man and a woman on the New World First bus were stranded in their seats. It took firemen 20 minutes to free them with a hydraulic platform via one of the bus windows.