Hong Kong clerk says normal life ‘ended’ after taxi hit her during 2019 protest

Park Hoi-lam’s lawyers urged court to find driver Henry Cheng liable for HK$8.4 million in damages after taxi struck her during Sham Shui Po protest Park Hoi-lam’s lawyers on Tuesday urged the court to find taxi driver Henry Cheng Kwok-chuen liable for at least HK$8.4 million (US$1.07 million) in damages after his vehicle mounted a pavement and struck her during a demonstration in Sham Shui Po on October 6, 2019. The plaintiff’s counsel, Susanna Leong, said the accident itself showed Cheng’s negligence and failure to exercise a reasonable level of care. She said Cheng never sounded his horn or attempted to brake before his vehicle hit her client and another woman on Yen Chow Street. She stressed the subsequent assault on the driver by protesters was irrelevant to how and why the collision took place.

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