[The deceased] was the producer and executive director of the movie Colourful Mind, which is about a dead person given another chance to live in order to find out his greatest sin.
Wearing a seatbelt would be a good starting point.
Cue ... the Pet Shop Boys
It's a Sin with Lyrics
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame ...
We have recently heard about the death of a 74-year-old who fell down the stairs of a double-decker bus. Why do people put themselves at unnecessary risk?
Risk Assessment
Leaving aside the unpredictable, unintelligent and incompetent actions of others (like the taxi driver, allegedly), why do people put themselves at unnecessary risk? Would it not be sensible to put on a seatbelt when riding in a vehicle?
Hey! By coincidence, today is Friday the Thirteenth ... not that it means anything.
Reference
Film producer dies in taxi smash (The Standard)
Candy Chan
Thursday, January 12, 2012
A Taiwanese film producer was crushed to death yesterday when the taxi taking him to the airport smashed into a road divider on the North Lantau Highway.
The driver, Lilian So Yuet- seung, 56, was critically injured and is battling for her life in hospital.
Police said the 55-year-old producer, identified as He Rui-da, was not wearing a seatbelt.
The taxi was near the Caribbean Coast Phase I around 12.45pm when it suddenly veered into the divider, flipped into the air and landed on the slow lane on the opposite side of the road.
The taxi was severely damaged, its chassis twisted and the roof torn open.
Both He and So were trapped inside the vehicle and had to be cut out by firemen. They were rushed to Princess Margaret Hospital where He was declared dead at 1.48pm. He suffered serious head injuries.
So suffered fractures on both arms and concussion. She was unconscious and on oxygen when wheeled into hospital and is now in the intensive care unit.
"We do not exclude the possibility the driver may have dozed off or suffered a seizure at the time," said a spokesman for the Special Investigation Team of Traffic, New Territories South.
He urged anyone who witnessed the accident or has any information to contact the investigation unit.
He Rui-da was the producer and executive director of the movie Colourful Mind, which is about a dead person given another chance to live in order to find out his greatest sin.
He arrived on Tuesday morning and was supposed to fly to Taiwan yesterday afternoon.
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It's a pretty nasty way to meet an injury, or a more fatal demise, when the error could have been averted had the person been more careful with himself or herself. Maybe risk was taken unconsciously, making people forget even the simplest notion of wearing a seatbelt. But since there were two people (and more) on board when the accident occurred, they could have helped.
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