Tai Po Road

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Tai Po Road
大埔公路
Route information
Length21.9 km (13.6 mi)
1.6 km (0.99 mi) Tai Wo section
1.1 km (0.68 mi) Yuen Chau Tsai section
3.6 km (2.2 mi) Tai Po Kau section
2.8 km (1.7 mi) Ma Liu Shui section
4.0 km (2.5 mi) Sha Tin section
1.2 km (0.75 mi) Tai Wai section
3.3 km (2.1 mi) Sha Tin Heights section
1.2 km (0.75 mi) Piper's Hill section
3.1 km (1.9 mi) Section in Kowloon
Existed1902–present
Major junctions
South end Cheung Sha Wan Road at Mong Kok
Major intersections Castle Peak Road at Sham Shui Po
HK Route7.svg Route 7 at Lai Chi Kok
HK Route8.svg Route 8 at Tai Wai
HK Route9.svg Route 9 from Sha Tin to Ma Liu Shui
HK Route1.svg Route 1 at Fo Tan
HK Route9.svg Route 9 at Island House
North end Kwong Fuk Road/Nam Wan Road at Tai Po South
Location
Country China
Special administrative region Hong Kong
Highway system
Tai Po Road

On 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65.

The incident was Hong Kong's second deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road that killed 21. [2]

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References

  1. Cheng Siu Kei, "Making of a New Town: Urbanisation in Tai Po", Tai Po Book p. 271
  2. "Hong Kong bus overturns, killing at least 19 people". The Guardian . Agence-France Presse. 10 February 2018.
Tai Po Road (Kowloon portion)
Chinese 大埔道
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Dàbù Dào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization daai6 bou3 dou6
Preceded by
Shing Mun Tunnel Road
Hong Kong Route 9
HK Route9.svg
Tai Po Road — Sha Tin
Succeeded by
Tolo Highway

22°23′20″N114°11′37″E / 22.38893°N 114.19353°E / 22.38893; 114.19353