Collision involves two trucks, a goods van and two coaches carrying elderly people
More than 100 people, many of them elderly, were in hospital last night after a series of collisions involving five vehicles on the Tolo Highway.
One of the victims was in a critical condition and three were listed as serious after the accidents, which involved two trucks, a goods van and two coaches carrying an elderly group on an excursion.
Police said at least one of the drivers may have been following too closely - the second time in a week that tailgating has been blamed for a serious accident in the New Territories.
Bloody victims were strewn on the roadside after the collisions in Kowloon-bound lanes of the highway outside the Tai Po Market railway station at 11.30am.
A fleet of ambulances was sent to the scene and victims were treated by a mobile casualty unit before being sent to five hospitals. Staff from other hospitals were sent to help deal with the influx.
