A DECORATOR smuggling 10 pregnant women into the territory drove his lorry into a ditch after jumping a police checkpoint, the District Court heard yesterday.
Yu Man-wai, 21, admitted reckless driving and assisting the passage of unauthorised entrants.
Prosecutor Cheung Wing-leung said Yu was stopped at Shek Chung Au police checkpoint on September 11 last year.
When an officer asked him to switch off his engine, Yu drove off with a door still open, Mr Cheung said.
Yu lost control of the lorry, hit some railings and then drove into a two-metre ditch.
Police found 11 women, all illegal immigrants, inside the lorry and 10 of them were pregnant. The women, aged between 24 and 36, were sent to Fanling Hospital. Four were admitted for observation.
The court was told the women were later sent back to China.