Actor Patrick Tse, 79, fractured a rib in a four-vehicle crash on a recent rainy day in Shenzhen and is taking a few days off from a TVB production, said reports on Wednesday (June 8).
Tse, who has returned to Hong Kong for treatment, said he was on his way to the set when a truck cut in on the car he was in.
He told Apple Daily: “My driver was anxious to avoid it. Three cars behind couldn’t stop in time, hit us and it became a four-vehicle collision. Mainlanders really drive any old how.”
He was sleeping and not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash and fell off the seat, he said.
However, “I thought I was fine. Went into the studio, started working, shot two scenes, but my ribs began to hurt”, he added.
Afterwards, he went to hospital to have an X-ray but the doctor insisted he was okay, because “they photographed only my right ribs, not the left side, and it was a rib on the left that had cracked”.
He has since seen his usual doctor in Hong Kong, and is resting, he said.
Tse is reuniting with writer-director Wong Jing to star in a reboot of his 1980s TVB series The Shell Game. The remake also stars actress Charmaine Sheh, actors Nat Chan, Kenneth Ma and Lau Siu Ming.
This article was first published on June 8, 2016.
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