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Clifford Lo

Two elderly people were killed in separate traffic accidents in Hung Hom and Mong Kok yesterday, prompting police to launch a road safety campaign to educate pedestrians, especially senior residents.
An 83-year-old man pushing a trolley loaded with discarded newspapers and flattened cardboard boxes along Princess Margaret Road in Hung Hom was knocked down by an Audi near Oi Man Estate at about 6.20am.
He was certified dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei at 7.09am.
"The victim was on the way to a nearby recycling shop to sell the cardboard and newspapers," Senior Inspector Sun Lun-yum of the police's Kowloon West traffic unit said.
The driver, 64, complained of feeling unwell and was treated at the same hospital.
Three hours later, a 79-year-old woman was hit by a delivery van on Boundary Street and became trapped underneath it.
She was freed by firefighters but declared dead at Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei at 9.50am. The driver, 29, was unhurt.
Police arrested both drivers on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The two men were released on bail.
The deaths brought the number of pedestrian fatalities in Kowloon West this year to 16. Eighteen people in total have died on roads in the area this year. Sun said three-quarters of the 16 pedestrians were over the age of 60. Most of those who died had been jaywalking, he added.
"Police will launch a campaign [in Kowloon West] later this month to educate the public, especially senior residents, on road safety," he said.
Police figures showed 70 people were killed in 69 road accidents in the city in the first nine months of this year. During the same period last year, 88 died.
 


Police plan safety campaign after two elderly people killed on Kowloon roads

Two elderly people were killed in separate traffic accidents in Hung Hom and Mong Kok yesterday, prompting police to launch a road safety campaign to educate pedestrians, especially senior residents. Photo: Samantha Sin

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Two elderly people were killed in separate traffic accidents in Hung Hom and Mong Kok yesterday, prompting police to launch a road safety campaign to educate pedestrians, especially senior residents.
