Read the full judgment text of HCA 000108/1979 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 December 1979.
1. On the 28th November 1977, the plaintiff was knocked down by a dump truck at Tin Hau Road near Tuen Mun in the New Territories. The dump truck registration no. BM9378 was driven by the 2nd defendant, LAM Kam-sing, an employee of the 1st defendant. It was about 9 o'clock in the morning; there was very little traffic on the road. The truck was large: 7.2 metres long, 2.4 metres wide, 10,000 c.c. engine capacity, and was heavily laden with earth and excavated material.