A serious traffic accident occurred in Central tonight (10th). A private car parked on the ramp of Peel Street suddenly slid and crashed into a crowd nearly 100 meters, resulting in 8 people being injured, 2 of whom were in a coma. Police are investigating the private car Causes after slipping.
In Hong Kong, there have been accidents where vehicles slipped out of control on sloping roads from time to time, resulting in many injuries. Among them, a school bus in North Point in 2018 caused 4 deaths and 11 injuries before the long-lived sideways.
Li Yaopei, president of the Hong Kong Automobile Association, said that when a private car is parked on a ramp, there are three key points to pay attention to: twisting the left or right wheel, tightening the knob, and getting into waves.
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The road with the highest slope in Hong Kong has a slope of 1:4. As seen at the scene, Peel Street where the incident occurred is exactly one of the most sloping roads in Hong Kong.
Li Yaopei pointed out that there are safe parking rules for parking on an inclined road. On weekdays, drivers who pull the handle when parking on a flat road may not be pulled to death. However, when parking on an inclined road, they should make sure that the handle is tightened. 6 to 7 grid card sound".
Automatic wave vehicles are parked on a sloping road. When the front of the car is facing upwards, they should enter the parking wave; while the head of the stick-wave car should enter a wave when the head is facing upwards, and then enter the rear wave. Will slip before or after slipping.
In addition, when a vehicle is parked near the pavement on the left, the wheel should be twisted to the right; when a vehicle is parked near the pavement on the right, it must be twisted to the left. Stop.
He reminded all drivers to "work hard" when parking to avoid accidents.
The road with the highest slope in Hong Kong has a slope of 1:4. As seen at the scene, Peel Street where the incident occurred is exactly one of the most sloping roads in Hong Kong.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
In the past, there have been accidents of vehicles before or after the sloping road in Hong Kong from time to time. The most shocking accident in recent years occurred in December 2018. After a babysitter car was parked diagonally on Changkang Street for a long time, the driver suspected that the driver did not pull off the car and got off the car. Before running out of control, the driver blocked the car with his body to no avail, and was even caught under the car. The babysitter car rushed forward more than 100 meters and crashed into a number of passers-by, causing 4 deaths and 11 injuries.
In January of this year, a thrilling traffic accident occurred on Cotton Tree Drive in Central, which was heading uphill near Lower Albert Road. A police car suspected that it had no handlebars. It slipped on the top of the sloping road for about 100 meters and hit an arriving taxi. After hitting a green minibus and a private minibus, it stopped. In the accident, two drivers and one passenger were injured and they had to be sent to hospital for treatment.
↓↓↓Central Hongmian Road police car slipped and watched one by one↓↓↓
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