News from the roads: accidents, obstacles, submitted dashcam footage, submitted PK parking
Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle (AV) firm Waymo has expanded its open-access dataset with over 100,000 real-life road scenarios curated for “interesting interactions”, and launched a contest to challenge researchers to better predict road […]
An anonymous bidder broke Hong Kong’s vanity plate purchase record yesterday, with a HK$26 million (US$3.4m) bid for “W”. The previous record was HK$18.1 million for “28” in February 2016. The highest […]
A food delivery rider was knocked off his motorbike and hospitalised after smashing into a taxi that swung across the carriageway in Sha Tin last night. According to police reports, the 40-year-old […]
A convoy of 45 supercars was pulled over by police in Wan Chai this morning on suspicion of illegal road racing. The convoy is a well-known Sunday morning wake-up call for residents […]
A man who was knocked down crossing a road in Kwai Fong last Tuesday (16 February) has died from his injuries in Princess Margaret Hospital. Mr Ng, 72, was crossing Container Port […]
A truck driver ran down a man on a pedestrian crossing in Sham Shui Po last night, fleeing the scene in his heavy dump truck and leaving the man fatally wounded on […]
Police arrested the driver of a ParknShop truck last night after a fatal crash which killed a 53-year-old motorcyclist. Mr Chan, 33, was driving his truck along Container Port Road South in […]
A former government official was yesterday sentenced to 10 months’ jail in District Court after killing a pedestrian in Tuen Mun last March. Chan Kit-fong, 48, knocked down Mr Tang, 55, before […]
Police arrested a 30-year-old “foreign man” last night for driving an electric scooter through Tseung Kwan O Tunnel over the weekend. Police say they “took the initiative” to track down and arrest […]
A man who fell under a bus after his bicycle flipped on a tram track had a miraculous escape this afternoon, with apparently no injuries from his horrifying brush with death. The […]
