Mind-boggling accidents
17th October 1981, Page 28
17th October 1981
Page 28
Page 28, 17th October 1981
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A PEDESTRIAN in Hong Kong complained in a letter to the South China Morning Post that bus had hit him on top of the head three times in three week: "It was not as if I was being careless about where I put my head or had tucked it carelessN under my arm," he protested. was where it should have been firmly sitting on my shoulders out of what I thought was harm way."
What's more, he was walkinc, on the inside of the pavement.
The road in question is, it seems, narrow and so steeply cambered that buses lean over the pavement, blipping pedestrians on the head. The answer might be to ask all passengers to hang out of the offside windows to stabilise th buses.