North Point crash: police investigate whether handbrake was properly applied as four killed and 11 injured by runaway Hong Kong school bus
- Video footage shows bus starting to move just after driver gets out of the vehicle
- He chases in vain but is unable to stop bus careering down side street, across busy main road and crashing into shop
Four people were killed and 11 others injured when an unmanned school bus rolled 100 metres down a North Point street on Monday, hitting pedestrians and other vehicles before crashing to a standstill.
Rescuers who arrived at the scene found one man trapped under the right front wheel, another man stuck under the middle of the bus, and a woman pinned by the rear right wheel. They took 20 minutes to free them.
An 80-year-old woman, Ho Yuk-chun, was confirmed dead at the scene. Two men – Leung Hung, 83, and Yeung Man-kan, 77 – died in Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan.
Another woman, Chan Shui-yee, 70, died in Ruttonjee Hospital, Wan Chai.
As of 10pm, three men remained in critical condition, two in Eastern Hospital and the other in Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam. One woman remained in a serious condition in Eastern Hospital.
Three people – two women and a man – were in a stable condition in Ruttonjee Hospital.