A PASSENGER accidentally fell to his death from the upper deck of a KMB bus, a Coroner's Court jury found yesterday.
Ling Chi-wah, 25, a hotel security guard, fell out of the bus along with the emergency window he had opened.
The court heard the window had broken rivets.
Ling was pronounced dead on arrival at Fanling Hospital on September 19 last year.
The incident occurred just after the bus left a Hong Lok Yuen roundabout.
Driver Li Wai-cheung continued to drive the route 70X bus at a speed of 25 to 30 km/h along Tai Wo Service Road West towards Fanling until a passenger told him someone had fallen out of the bus.
After the jury returned a verdict of death by accident, Coroner Warner Banks said: ''There are millions of passengers travelling on buses each year. This is the first such incident which I have come across in the four years that I have sat in the Coroner's Court.'' A postmortem examination report concluded that Ling died of a skull fracture and brain injuries.