Read the full judgment text of CACV 000090/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 February 1998.
1. On 9.4.1994 at about 8:30 p.m. a traffic accident occurred at the junction of Rutland Quadrant and Waterloo Road, Kowloon. The junction was controlled by traffic lights operated in such sequence that when the lights were green in favour of the traffic along the north bound carriageway of Waterloo Road, the lights were red against the traffic emerging from Rutland Quadrant into Waterloo Road and vice versa. There was no dispute that these lights were working properly on that night. The acciden