Three taxi crashes involving elderly drivers aged 66 to 85 occurred in the same week of March. Permanent President of Taxi Dealers and Owners Association Ng Kwan–sing addressed the industry’s shortage of young taxi drivers, while 70 percent are over 50.
The three cases, in total, caused critical injuries to three pedestrians and killed one person.
On March 5, an 85-year-old male, Ngai Choi-nung, who drove a taxi, struck three people, while two of them caused severe bodily harm on the road at the junction of Fortress Hill Road and King’s Road in North Point, Hong Kong Island.
In a video uploaded to social media taken from the dashboard camera of a car on the same road, the taxi went straight and hit some passers-by….