“Traffic police will today begin a detailed inquiry into how a float in a Lunar New Year parade careered into a Tsim Sha Tsui crowd, killing a tourist and injuring 31 people,” reported the South China Morning Post on February 9, 1997.
“The Hong Kong Tourist Association, which organised Friday’s parade [February 7, 1997] to provide holiday entertainment for foreign visitors, and float sponsors the Better Hong Kong Foundation, held meetings yesterday to see how they could assist the inquiry.
“ Police investigators are checking how the driver of the float was apparently overcome by carbon monoxide. A Queen Elizabeth Hospital spokesman said victims saw the driver slumped over the wheel of his modified goods vehicle as it veered off Salisbury Road, near the junction with Middle Road, and ran into them.”
A day later, the Post reported that the parents of the British tourist crushed to death in a Lunar New Year parade had “accused the Hong Kong Tourist Association yesterday of…
