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Escaping from Dawei Pingzhi|Fleeing 5 kilometers from Festival Walk through the Lion Tunnel

2023-01-31T11:05:14.012Z


Today (31st) around 2:00 p.m., a six-vehicle collision occurred on Hongmeigu Road in Dawei, involving a Mercedes private car that escaped arrest and crashed. According to the news at the scene, the incident involved the operation of the Regional Crime Squad of Hong Kong Island Police. At that time, the detectives were in Kowloon Tong


Today (31st) around 2:00 p.m., a six-vehicle collision occurred on Hongmeigu Road in Dawei, involving a Mercedes private car that escaped arrest and crashed.

According to the news on the scene, the incident involved the operation of the Police Hong Kong Island Regional Crime Unit. At that time, the detectives started to follow the target vehicle at Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong, and followed it along the Lion Rock Tunnel towards Sha Tin. However, the other party suspected that he was being followed and sped away , when finally driving to Hongmeigu Road, the traffic light ahead was red, the target vehicle was suspected of attempting to break out, broke into the traffic lane, and finally hit 5 vehicles in a row, the driver and passengers in the vehicle then abandoned the vehicle and fled, plainclothes detectives appeared to pursue , and then captured a South Asian man and subdued him to the ground.

It is understood that the 34-year-old South Asian man held a "street permit" and was the driver of the vehicle involved in the case. He was arrested on suspicion of "crazy driving", "driving without a license" and "driving without third-party insurance".

Eyewitnesses described the arrested person as "large", but there was no resistance when he was arrested.


Witness Mr. Li described the arrested South Asian man as "big" and did not resist when he was subdued.

(Provided by Mr. Li)

Mr. Li, who witnessed the arrest of the suspect by the police, said that he passed by the scene on a bicycle at 2:00 p.m. when he heard noise nearby. A plainclothes policeman ran in front of him, chasing others, and three plainclothes policemen subdued a South Asian man to the ground.

Li said that the "large" South Asian man did not resist at the time. One police officer knelt on the man, another police officer handcuffed him, and another retractable baton was placed on the ground.

At about 4:30 p.m., the police escorted the arrested male suspect back to his private car, searched the car for about 10 minutes and brought him back to the police car, and then arranged for him to be taken to the Prince of Wales Hospital by ambulance for treatment.

Detectives also seized a bag of evidence, including clothing and banknotes.

Three people were injured in the incident, including the arrested male suspect, who was the driver of one of the private cars involved in the case; the other two injured were a female driver and a female passenger of other private cars.

After the incident, a Benz private car was parked in the middle of two traffic lanes, the bonnet was dented and damaged, parts were scattered, and there were other cars in the front, rear, left, and right sides.

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6 cars collided with Benz on Hongmeigu Road, Dawei

Source: hk1

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