Hong Kong taxi driver, passenger escape serious injury after slamming into barriers, lamp post

Dashcam footage showed the taxi switching lanes on the Kwun Tong-bound Lung Cheung Road in Wong Tai Sin before crashing at around midday on Thursday.

The taxi could be seen veering right on the three-lane road before drifting back to the left-hand side, colliding with the concrete barriers and continuing for a short distance before hitting a lamp post and coming to stop.

The lamp post snapped and fell, narrowly missing the vehicle recording the dashcam footage.

A police spokesman said the 61-year-old taxi driver had passed a breathalyser test and complained of chest pain. His passenger, a 29-year-old woman, suffered an injury to her nose.