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SCMP Reporter

The mother of a 5-year-old girl killed in a traffic accident yesterday told a court how, after getting knocked down by a car, she got up to find her daughter covered in blood.

She said she heard a loud bang after two vehicles collided.  'But I didn't realise what had happened because an impulsive force had dragged me on the ground,' she said.

'When I got up my elder daughter, Chun-yee, and a young woman were lying on the ground, bleeding.'

Chun-yee was declared dead in hospital an hour later.

Yolanda Ng, 24, was calm throughout her testimony, even when the prosecutor described her daughter.

Witnesses told Eastern Court how a South Korean woman's car ran into the railing of a traffic island seconds after hitting a taxi, knocking down and killing Chun-yee and Cheng Fung-yee, 23.

Ng Sui-man, 44, who was on the traffic island on January 15, said Park Myung-hwa's car failed to stop at a red light.

'I heard a big bang. It was in a split second, then I saw a little girl lying on the ground. I couldn't even see her eyes, ears, nose and mouth because blood was all over her,' Mr Ng said.

He speculated that Park was travelling about 70km/h.

Park, 36, denies a charge of dangerous driving causing death but has offered to plead guilty to the lesser charge of careless driving.

Prosecutor Peter Lee said Park drove through the red light at the junction of Hing Fat Street and Victoria Park Road in Causeway Bay and collided with a taxi driven by Cheung Yuk-choi.

Mr Lee said Park's car then ran into the railing of the traffic island, killing Cheng and  Chun-yee,  who attended St Peter's Church Kindergarten in North Point and was riding a tricycle  on the traffic island at the time of the accident. Six others were injured.

Another witness, driver Kwok Yick-keung, 41, whose van was following Mr Cheung's taxi, said Park's car stopped about seven car lengths after  hitting the island.

'I got out hoping to rescue the injured. But the scene was so scary that I dared not go near,' Mr Kwok said.

Defence barrister Toby Jenkyn-Jones argued the momentum from the collision might have pushed Park's car into the traffic island.

The case continues on Monday.



Stoic mother tells how girl, 5, was killed by car