A total of 37 people were injured, including a man thrown out the window of a bus, in a five-vehicle pileup in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon (June 19).
A dashboard camera caught the moment when the man was flung out of the bus.
The accident happened on the Tsing Ma Bridge at about 5pm, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily reported. The vehicles, which include at least two buses and a van, were heading in the direction of Kowloon.
It is believed that the van slowed down near roadworks. Buses carrying airport workers behind the van could not stop in time and crashed into it, causing the pileup.
The man thrown from the bus was in the last vehicle in the pileup. He crashed through the window after the panel fell out.
Victims sat by the road while waiting for ambulances to arrive, Apple Daily said.
It said 34 men and 3 women, aged 20 to 59, were injured, adding that nine were hospitalised, including two in critical conditions.
One of the injured men said that the bus he was on was not speeding when the accident occurred. He added that he saw the man flung from the bus bleeding on the road.
sinsh@sph.com.sg
