An elderly woman died after being hit by a taxi that mounted a pavement in Central yesterday - the third road fatality in two days.
The 68-year-old Filipino, surnamed Yumol, was walking along a narrow pavement on Kennedy Road when the incident happened at about 1.30pm.
'The driver reportedly lost control and the vehicle mounted the pavement, where it hit a 68-year-old pedestrian,' a police spokesman said.
The Wan Chai-bound taxi, driven by a 54-year-old man, rolled for about 10 metres before it mounted the pavement, hit railings and came to a halt, police said.
A male passer-by said: 'I heard a loud bang and then saw a woman lying on the ground. She was motionless.' Her upper body was on the road and her lower body on the pavement, he said.
She was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai, where doctors declared her dead at 1.50pm.
Senior Inspector Yu Sum-lun, of the Hong Kong Island traffic unit, said the driver passed a breathalyser test and was not arrested. The taxi was taken to a government vehicle plant in Quarry Bay for examination.
