Hong Kong taxi driver beaten by mob after car rams into crowd of protesters in Sham Shui Po gives account of crash
- In a version of events attributed to him, 59-year-old says someone lunged in and grabbed steering wheel, causing him to lose control of vehicle
- The chaotic incident during last weekend’s mask ban demonstrations left a young woman and the battered driver in hospital
A taxi driver subjected to a vigilante beating after the vehicle he was driving ploughed into a crowd of protesters in Hong Kong has blamed the crash on someone reaching in and pulling on the steering wheel, the owner of the car said.
Henry Cheng Kwok-chuen, 59, told his family the intervention on Sunday caused him to lose control of the taxi, leaving a woman injured, according to an account released by Jumbo taxi owner Chau Kwok-keung, who leased the vehicle to Cheng.
A 23-year-old woman reportedly suffered serious fractures to both her legs after the taxi mounted the pavement outside the Cheung Sha Wan government offices before smashing into a shopfront.
The Hospital Authority refused to release information on the injured woman’s condition at the request of her family. But Chau said he knew from various sources the woman had suffered a broken leg and had dislocated her knee on the other.