Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000134/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 April 1997.
1. This is an appeal against conviction by the appellant who was convicted on 11 th December 1996. The incident arose out of a traffic accident which occurred in Castle Peak Road on 16 th July 1996. It was as often happens to the traffic in Hong Kong, a chain collision, where a vehicle failed to stop and ran into the back of several cars at a traffic light, each one then running forward to strike the car in front. The appellant was the last car in line and there is little dispute that he was the