The Fire Service Bureau (CB) announced in a statement that four local residents were injured in a two-vehicle bus crash on Avenida da Amizade (友誼大馬路) last night.
At 7:36 p.m., the bureau received a report about a traffic accident near Oceanus casino on Avenida da Amizade. After arriving at the scene, the statement said, the fire fighters saw that while the bus’s front windscreen was shattered, two private cars – one dark-coloured, the other white – were damaged, and nearby water-filled traffic barriers (known in Cantonese as “water horses”) were also damaged.
After the crash, several passengers got off the bus and remained by the roadside. Traffic at the scene was temporarily disrupted. The driver of the dark-coloured car was trapped inside.
Public Security Police (PSP) Traffic Police Division Chief Wong Chi Wang told reporters at the scene that upon investigation it was discovered that around 7:30 p.m., while the white car was heading towards Avenida Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (孫逸仙大馬路) from Rua dos Pescadores (漁翁街), its driver attempted to overtake another car on the bend leading to the Macau Grand Prix grandstand, after which the driver lost control and collided with the avenue’s water traffic barriers and the dark-coloured car travelling in the opposite direction. The force of the impact was such that the dark-coloured vehicle was pushed into a TCM route 51 bus travelling behind it, Wong said.
Wong also said that the breathalyser tests for the driver of the white car and the bus driver both showed a reading of zero, while the police were unable to carry out a breathalyser test on the driver of the dark-coloured car as he had been rushed to the public Conde de S. Januário Hospital Centre adding that the traffic police were considering whether to take legal action against the driver of the white vehicle.
The Fire Service Bureau’s Areia Preta Operational Centre Chief Ng Chon Leong told reporters that the four injured were the three male drivers and a female bus passenger, aged between 35 and 61, adding that apart from the trapped driver, who was believed to have sustained of a fractured thigh, the others suffered chest contusions.
The front of the dark-coloured vehicle was severely damaged in the accident, and the firefighters had to use cutting equipment to cut open the front of the vehicle in order to rescue the trapped driver, Ng said.
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