Cathay Pacific employee K. Lai miraculously escaped with only minor injuries and says he will continue to use the same coach service in future
Passenger K. K. Lai, 54, is a regular on coaches like the one that crashed on Friday, frequently dozing off in his seat on the way to work in the early hours of the morning.
He was violently jolted awake and confronted with scenes of chaos when the coach carrying more than 30 people from Kowloon to the airport ploughed into a stationary taxi in Tsing Yi.
“The bus was still running and hitting things just at the moment I woke up. I was not sure where I was, but I heard a loud rumbling,” he said. “I was worried about whether we were on a bridge and would plunge into the sea.”
Lai works as a driver for Cathay Pacific Airways’ freight and storage services subsidiary HAS.
