A total of 24 people sustained minor injuries in the incident, including the bus driver, who was trapped briefly before being rescued by emergency services.
“You can see that the bus crashed onto the shadow vehicle [at speed] without braking, smashing the shadow vehicle’s truck-mounted attenuator, then towards the vehicle itself,” Ringo Lee, honorary life president of the Hong Kong, China Automobile Association, told an RTHK programme on Tuesday.
“The shadow vehicle helped avoid a serious head-on collision.”
Lee also said the key to avoiding traffic accidents from happening is drivers’ remaining alert to their surroundings while their vehicles are in motion.
Technology can be adopted as a way to help drivers, he said, citing drowsiness detection systems that track drivers’ eyes and automatic emergency braking systems that help cars prevent collisions.
As for construction work on roads, traffic cones can be placed metres away from work sites so as to alert drivers to take action early enough when their vehicle hits a cone, Lee added.
