Read the full judgment text of HCA 000122/1979 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 December 1979.
1. On the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1977, at about 3.45 p.m., a teen-age boy SUNG Chiang-so was knocked down by a dump truck and killed in the vicinity of the 20 milestone on the Castle Peak Road, New Territories. It was a straight stretch of road about 6½ metres wide with pavements on both sides. The scene of the accident was outside the Ho Fuk Tong Middle School. School finished at about 3.30 p.m., and when the accident occurred not all the children had dispersed. There were a few chil