By
Daisy CL Mandap
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| Photo showing the badly damaged car hangs on the spot where the crash happened |
A 44-year-old Filipina domestic helper is expected to
be charged in Eastern Court on Monday with dangerous driving causing death
after one of eight people injured in Friday’s car crash in
Central died of multiple injuries at 6:35pm today, Dec 11.
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The deceased was one of two French women who were
taken to Queen Mary Hospital unconscious and listed in critical condition after
the car that the Filipina had parked on Peel Street rolled down backwards, and
slammed onto a crowd on busy Staunton Street.
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Police said the two women had been talking on the
street when they were hit by the runaway car. Both sustained multiple head and body injuries and were unconscious when rushed to Queen Mary Hospital.
As of Saturday night, the other French woman, who is 31 years old, remained in critical condition at
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the hospital, while a male victim was
stable. Five others who sustained various injuries in the freak accident had
been discharged after treatment.
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Police said the incident happened at 8:07pm on Friday,
shortly after the Filipina had parked the white car on the sloping street and
she and her female passenger got off.
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| The empty car rolled down this sloping road fast, hitting the victims at the junction |
The parked vehicle suddenly started moving backwards
down the road, and as a video taken from a dash scam showed, accelerated fast before hitting a group of people at the junction with Staunton Street. It came to rest on top of a
flight of stairs after hitting a lamppost.
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A police spokeswoman told The SUN that among those hit
by the car were four French nationals, two Britons and two local Chinese.
The French woman who died was reportedly caught under the car, and several bystanders had to lift up the vehicle to get her freed.
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It was not immediately clear what had caused the car
to roll down the road, although there have been reports that the driver had
either failed to engage the hand brake, or did not lift it up properly.
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| The badly smashed car got stuck on steel railings after plowing through the crowd (RTHK photo) |
The female driver was taken into custody initially on suspicion of dangerous driving causing injuries, but the charge will now be upgraded after the death of one of the victims.
Police said the driver tested negative for
alcohol.
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As a result of the crash, a lamppost, a government
video camera and some iron fences were damaged.
As of Saturday night, the exact spot where the car had plowed into the crowd had been secured with police tape, and two pictures showing the badly damaged vehicle and the crowd that gathered in the aftermath were left hanging, to serve as a gruesome reminder of what happened.
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