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Ng Kang-chung

Hong Kong police have arrested a coach driver after his bus fatally hit a mainland Chinese tourist who was cycling with her friends on the outlying island of Lantau.
According to police, the coach struck the victim at about 3pm on Sunday near the Shing Fai Orchard bus stop on Keung Shan Road in South Lantau.
“A woman, aged 31, was hit by a tour coach while cycling along Keung Shan Road. She was certified dead at the scene,” a spokeswoman said.
The victim is understood to be Pan Haili, a mainland Chinese cycling vlogger with an online following of about 13,000 people on her Douyin account.
The last video clip uploaded to the account was on Sunday morning. It showed Pan and a group of cyclists gathered near Disneyland on Lantau Island.
The spokeswoman said Pan was in Hong Kong on a travel visa and was riding a bicycle with a group of about 10 friends at the time of the crash.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known, police said.

But there were reports Pan might have lost control of her bicycle and hit the coach while riding downhill.
The driver, 59, was later arrested for dangerous driving causing death. Police said they were still investigating how the accident happened.
Islands district councillor Lau Chin-pang urged the government to improve road conditions and signage on Lantau.
“There are many bends on some parts of Keung Shan Road. The road is also rather narrow and some sections are rather steep in gradient,” he said.
Lau said some of the roads on Lantau were of rural design and designated as “closed”. Only drivers that held a valid Lantau Closed Road Permit were allowed access to these roads, Lau said.
According to the government, the average daily traffic on roads in South Lantau is less than half of their design capacity. The design capacity of Keung Shan Road is about 8,000 cars a day.
In 2021, a 60-year-old cyclist was killed on the island after he was hit by a coach from behind and dragged under it while riding on Cheung Tung Road near Yam O.
Official figures show there were 997 road accidents in the first half of 2024 involving bicycles, compared with 1,064 for the same period last year.


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Pan Haili was hit by coach on Lantau, with clip of her and other cyclists uploaded to her Douyin account earlier in morning


Pan Haili was hit by coach on Lantau, with clip of her and other cyclists uploaded to her Douyin account earlier in morning.
