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Carrie Chan

Survivors of the bus crash that killed three Hong Kong people in southern Guangdong on Friday returned to Hong Kong yesterday.

A government spokeswoman said the three male survivors suffered only minor injuries.

A Hospital Authority spokesman said the Northern District Hospital had accepted one of the survivors, who had been discharged.

The crash, on the busy Shenzhen-Shantou freeway, came a day after a similar accident that killed a Hong Kong resident on the Lufeng section of the expressway.

Friday's accident happened when the driver of a five-tonne truck travelling in the opposite direction ran out of control after a tyre blowout.

The truck ploughed through a road divider and crashed into the bus.

Six passengers died immediately, including two Hong Kong residents, and seven were injured. A third Hong Kong resident died during emergency brain surgery at Lufeng People's Hospital.

On Thursday, two people, including a Hong Kong passenger, were killed in a crash on the same highway.

A bus crashed into a container truck while heading towards Shenzhen from Fuzhou. The bus driver and a passenger died instantly.

Travel Industry Council executive director Joseph Tung Yao-chung said they had no information on the survivors as they were not travelling in tour groups.

'As far as we understand, the freeway is wide and safe. It is probably the driver's problem,' Mr Tung said.

'We are very concerned about the situation and have already reflected to the Guangdong Tourism Bureau that the public security officers should check whether these drivers are driving at high speed or whether the vehicles are overloaded.'



Bus crash survivors returned to HK