Hong Kong police intercepted the car to do “human barricade”, the male passenger’s family died to the police to claim compensation

Hong Kong police officers in February 11, 2018, in the Fanling Highway chase a suspected high-speed violation of the seven-person car, suspected of using the public vehicles as a “human roadblock”, resulting in a five-car collision, two people died, including the driver of the seven-person car and male passengers, many people were injured. The Family of the passenger who lost his Life in the seven-person car recently filed a petition in the District Court to the estate of the driver of the seven-person car agents, car owners and police claims.

The petition states that the Commissioner of Police or his subordinates negligence and breach of duty, so Deng Bingqiang must be indirectly responsible for the incident and the deceased.

In July 2020, the Coroner’s Court held a coroner’s hearing and ruled that the driver and passenger of the seven-passenger car died in the accident, and that both died of multiple injuries.

Magistrate Chow Wai-chu said at the Time that the driver of the seven-passenger car was driving under the influence of methamphetamine and was carrying passengers at high speed on the Fanling Highway when he slammed into a private car that had been signaled by a police officer to slow down or even stop, overturning and causing the accident.

Hong Kong police officers in February 11, 2018, in the Fanling Highway to intercept a suspected violation of high-speed seven-person car, suspected of using the public vehicle as a “human roadblock”, resulting in a five-car collision, two people died, including the driver of the seven-person car and male passengers, many people were injured. (Web video screenshot)

The magistrate said that the police officer who stopped the vehicle that day, although he claimed that he had no intention of stopping the vehicle behind him, but his gestures and stopping the vehicle “no difference”, the traffic accident was due to the vehicle behind the police officer, in response to the police officer’s instructions to slow down or even stop and occur.

The magistrate said that although the officer claimed that he did not intend to stop the vehicle behind him, his gesture was “no different” from stopping the vehicle. (Web video screenshot)

She made several recommendations to the police force, including requiring police officers to familiarize themselves with the general chapter of their duties, and hope that the Commissioner of Police in six months, a written response to the police force to adopt what measures to respond to the court’s recommendations.