Letters | Hong Kong five-bus crash should be a wake-up call on speed limits
- Coaches and trucks tend to exceed the speed limit on motorways and cut lanes. Moreover, heavy vehicles often fail to maintain a safe following distance
The accident did not surprise me, since many buses and trucks tend to drive too fast in Hong Kong and don’t keep enough distance between each other.
As a car driver in Hong Kong, I find it very irritating that, most of the time, when I try to keep some distance from the car ahead, heavy vehicles passing in either the right or left lane make a quick turn into the space in front of me, even if I keep to the 70km per hour or 80km per hour speed limit.
During a heavy rainstorm on Friday afternoon, my daughter and I picked up my wife from her workplace in Kowloon and took Route 7 back to Tuen Mun. At several points, we were overtaken by fast-driving buses and heavy trucks, and we experienced two or three occasions when we could not see anything on the road ahead for a few seconds because the vehicles passing by were driving too fast, splashing loads of water onto our windscreen without any consideration for our safety.
