Residents are evacuated after container truck plunges through danger spot at flyover
A container truck smashed through safety rails and fell six metres off a flyover in Shekkipmei yesterday on a curve where truck drivers say their pleas for safety improvements have fallen on deaf government ears.
Dozens of people were evacuated when the truck crashed off a curve in Ching Cheung Road and plunged to a flyover below, sending its container, with 18 tonnes of metal products, crashing onto a slope near an estate.
Driver Wong Wang-kau, 47, who was thrown from his cab, was found lying near the truck and was in critical condition in hospital last night. He told rescuers the brakes had failed.
The truck dislodged debris and demolished a 25-metre stretch of safety barrier, although no one else was injured.
The accident had echoes of the Tuen Mun bus tragedy of July last year in which 21 people died when a bus smashed through safety rails and plunged 31 metres after a collision with a truck.