A driver is dead and 16 passengers injured after a minibus flipped onto its side following a violent head-on collision with the stanchion of a freeway sign during rush hour this morning.
The accident involving the 403 minibus took place at about 8:30am as it was being driven along Shing Mun Tunnel Road en route from Kwai Tsing to Sha Tin, Ming Pao reports.
All 16 passengers — aged between 18 to 58 — managed to get out of the vehicle after the crash. The bus’s 67-year-old driver, surnamed Lo, was not so lucky.
Lo was rushed to Yan Chai Hospital after being extracted from the demolished front end of the vehicle, and officially declared dead just after 10:30am.
Ten ambulances were at the scene, and all passengers were sent to Princess Margaret and Prince of Wales hospitals for treatment for minor injuries, Apple Daily reports.
All Sha Tin-bound lanes of Shing Mun Tunnel Road, near Mei Chung Court, remained closed to traffic as of 9:50am, according to the Transport Department.
We’ll provide more updates when they become available.
