Police say fist-sized object could have come from another vehicle or nearby building
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PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 12 January, 2016, 11:49am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 12 January, 2016, 12:08pm
The incident took place about 6.50am on Tuesday along Cheung Sha Wan road. Photo SCMP Pictures
A rock about the size of a hand struck and pieced the windscreen of a moving car, hitting the driver’s head and killing him.
Police said the rock – measuring 4 inches by 6 inches by 4 inches – may have been dropped by another vehicle or have fallen from a nearby building.
The object smashed through a corner of the windscreen before struck the 60-year-old driver on the right side of his face. The driver was later certified dead by ambulance crew at the scene.
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The bizarre accident took place about 6.50am on Tuesday along Cheung Sha Wan road. The driver was driving home along the West Kowloon Corridor in the direction of Tsuen Wan.
After the driver was hit, his black Mazda MPV continued to drift for about 100 metres before it stopped beside a roadside barrier. Another driver made a report to the police.
Chief inspector Sun Lun-yum, from Traffic West Kowloon, said the police were going through footage taken by a camera in the car.
“From the driver’s perspective, it was unlikely he could avoid the rock, as it came towards him all of a sudden,” he said.
Sun added that the rock appeared to be made of building material akin to a piece of granite. “It is not a brick or a natural rock,” he said. A similar but smaller object was found nearby, he added.
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