Read the full judgment text of DCCC 19/2018 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 3 July 2018.
1. The defendant has pleaded guilty today to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. He was driving a taxi along the third left lane of Lai Chi Kok Road towards a pedestrian crossing and the vehicular light was green but there was a pedestrian, Mr Ip, walking on the pedestrian crossing between the second and third lane. The defendant’s taxi hit the pedestrian. He was thrown into the air and subsequently died from his injuries.