Hong Kong woman falls on moving bus, smashing glass door
Unlike victim in similar incident earlier this month, passenger did not fall out of vehicle, though accident left her with pain in left arm
A passenger escaped serious injury after she allegedly lost her balance on a moving double-decker bus, hit the glass door and broke it – about a fortnight after a similar incident on another bus.
The accident happened shortly before 9am yesterday outside The Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Au Wing-suen, 51, was travelling on KMB route 219X. According to police, she left her seat, stood near the exit door and got ready to get off at the next stop as the bus was turning onto Nathan Road from Salisbury Road.
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“Initial investigation showed that when she pressed the bell button, she allegedly lost her balance and bumped into the exit door [in the middle of the bus],” a police spokesman said.
“As a result, the glass door smashed, and she was injured,” he added.
Police said the woman did not fall out of the vehicle, and was not hurt by glass fragments. One of the glass exit doors was shattered.
“She only complained of feeling pain in the left arm,” the spokesman said.
