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| Be careful when getting off taxis (file photo) |
Be careful when opening a door of a taxi or any vehicle, to get off. If you cause an accident and hurt someone, you will be liable under Hong Kong laws.
A Filipina learned this lesson today after she was summoned
to Tuen Mun Law Courts to face the charge of opening, “without reasonable excuse,
… the door of a taxi on a road… so as to cause danger to another person.”
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S. Duldulao, 32 years old, pleaded guilty and was fined
$600 by Magistrate Debbie Ng.
According to the information laid by the Police Central Traffic Prosecutions Division, Duldulao was about to get off a taxi in the afternoon of July 9 last year on Man Tak Road in Tin Shui Wai when the door was hit by an incoming private vehicle.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
The incident kicked into action two provisions of the Road
Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations which were made under the Road Traffic Ordinance.
Regulation 44(2) states: “No person shall open or cause or
permit to be opened any door of a motor vehicle or trailer on a road so as to
cause injury or danger to any person.”
Regulation 61(2) also states: “Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes any of the provisions of, or any requirement under, regulation … 44 (among others) … commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1 ($2,000).”
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