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SCMP Reporter

AN award of damages is being sought for two orphans whose mother was run over by a car.

  Social worker Lee Sio-swat and the Director of Social Welfare, acting on the orphans' behalf, filed a writ in the Supreme Court alleging negligence by the driver, Mak Chi-hung.

    They claim Mak was under the influence of drugs and alcohol when the accident happened.

  According to the statement of claim, the orphans' mother, Wong Mei-chun, 35, a widow, was run over at the junction of Kwun Tong and Hong Ning roads on July 9, 1991, by a car driven by Mak.

  It says Wong was using a pedestrian crossing controlled by traffic lights at the time.

  She died of her injuries in hospital the following day.

  The plaintiffs argue the accident was due to the negligence of Mak, who drove through a red traffic light.

  They also argue he was driving too fast in the circumstances and was under the influence of alcohol, codeine and morphine.

  On January 10, 1992, a magistrate convicted Mak of reckless driving and reckless driving causing death with regard to the accident, the writ said.

 It said Wong was a hard-working woman who took on the responsibility of raising her children on her own after her husband died in 1982.

 She was a skilled seamstress who earned $7,827 a month, and her two children, a daughter, now 16, and a son, now 13, were wholly dependent on her financially.



Damages sought for two orphans