62 injured as HK train derails
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May 18, 2013, Saturday
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A TWO-CAR train derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city yesterday, injuring 62 people.
Passengers sat dazed on the ground near where the train derailed, some bleeding and being treated by medics. Others were taken away on stretchers, television news footage showed.
Three people who were seriously injured had already been taken to hospital according to state-run broadcaster RTHK.
"It was driving too fast," a female passenger told Cable TV News. She said the train lost control when it was making a turn.
"It was very chaotic inside the train, there was some blood," she said. "All the passengers fell flat on the floor," a young boy said.
"It was like a ball game where everybody was bouncing around ... we didn't even know what happened and then we all fell onto the floor," another passenger said.
"There was a derailment on the light rail," a police spokeswoman told reporters, confirming that 62 people had been injured. Police said the incident happened in the early afternoon at the Tong Fong Tsuen stop in the city's rural Tin Shui Wai district.
The Hong Kong Light Railway is part of the city's complex public transport system of trams, buses and underground metros.
The light rail links 68 stops along 36 kilometers of track in the northwestern New Territories, a semi-rural region in the north of Hong Kong.
Its single-decker cars, which can take around 200 passengers, are connected to overhead electric cables and run along tracks on the streets which also branch off into the surrounding countryside.
Accidents are rare in Hong Kong's public transport system, which it promotes as one of the best infrastructures in the world.
But the safety of Hong Kong's waterways has remained under scrutiny since 39 people were killed when a high-speed ferry and a pleasure boat crashed last October. It was the worst maritime accident the city had seen in 40 years.
A report into the incident near Lamma Island found a "litany of errors."
Passengers sat dazed on the ground near where the train derailed, some bleeding and being treated by medics. Others were taken away on stretchers, television news footage showed.
Three people who were seriously injured had already been taken to hospital according to state-run broadcaster RTHK.
"It was driving too fast," a female passenger told Cable TV News. She said the train lost control when it was making a turn.
"It was very chaotic inside the train, there was some blood," she said. "All the passengers fell flat on the floor," a young boy said.
"It was like a ball game where everybody was bouncing around ... we didn't even know what happened and then we all fell onto the floor," another passenger said.
"There was a derailment on the light rail," a police spokeswoman told reporters, confirming that 62 people had been injured. Police said the incident happened in the early afternoon at the Tong Fong Tsuen stop in the city's rural Tin Shui Wai district.
The Hong Kong Light Railway is part of the city's complex public transport system of trams, buses and underground metros.
The light rail links 68 stops along 36 kilometers of track in the northwestern New Territories, a semi-rural region in the north of Hong Kong.
Its single-decker cars, which can take around 200 passengers, are connected to overhead electric cables and run along tracks on the streets which also branch off into the surrounding countryside.
Accidents are rare in Hong Kong's public transport system, which it promotes as one of the best infrastructures in the world.
But the safety of Hong Kong's waterways has remained under scrutiny since 39 people were killed when a high-speed ferry and a pleasure boat crashed last October. It was the worst maritime accident the city had seen in 40 years.
A report into the incident near Lamma Island found a "litany of errors."
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