{"id":1214,"date":"2025-02-21T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2025-07-06T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:21:59","slug":"courts-found-defendant-not-guilty-of-careless-driving-at-trial-and-not-guilty-of-failing-to-stop-and-failing-to-report-after-accident-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/courts-found-defendant-not-guilty-of-careless-driving-at-trial-and-not-guilty-of-failing-to-stop-and-failing-to-report-after-accident-on-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts found defendant not guilty of careless driving at trial and not guilty of failing to stop and failing to report after accident on appeal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_740687531\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-745071750\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_740687531 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_409067871\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1280247996\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1245795663\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-3538602940\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Courts found defendant not guilty of careless driving at trial and not guilty of failing to stop and failing to report after accident on appeal<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1372474329\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v Yip Hau Yee (\u8449\u5de7\u5100)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1372474329 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-1372474329 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3094531871\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>21 February 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_895324490\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yip-Hau-Yee.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_895324490 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1349945126\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1349945126 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-1349945126 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>The Court found a defendant not guilty of careless driving at trial and not guilty of failing to stop or failing to report after an accident on appeal. <br \/><br \/>The Appellant initially faced three summonses, namely, careless driving, failing to stop after an accident, and failing to report after an accident. The three summonses originate out of an alleged accident where the Appellant\u2019s private vehicle was said to have \u201chit a dog\u201d. The Appellant pleaded not guilty to all charges and stood trial before Deputy Magistrate Shirley Hung. The prosecution relies primarily on a car-camera from a minibus behind the Appellant\u2019s private vehicle, which showed a dog coming out of the bottom of the Appellant\u2019s vehicle. <br \/><br \/>After trial, the Appellant was acquitted of careless driving by the Magistrate. The Magistrate agreed with the Appellant\u2019s submissions that there was no evidence how the dog came into existence and whether any collision in fact occurred. Costs for the careless driving summons was also awarded in favour of the Appellant. However, the Magistrate convicted the Defendant of the \u201cfailing to stop\u201d and \u201cfailing to report\u201d summonses. The Magistrate was of the view that the dog was crippling and, therefore, injured. The Appellant appealed. <br \/><br \/>Hon S.T. Poon J allowed the appeal against conviction of both summonses. The Court agreed that the Magistrate erred in finding and the prosecution failed to prove the essential ingredients common to both summonses, namely (1) injury had been suffered by the relevant animal and (2) the accident caused the injury. In the present case, there was no evidence howsoever about the physical condition of the dog (which was a stray dog) both before and after the alleged accident. In particular, there was also no evidence whether the dog was crippling before it came under the Appellant\u2019s vehicle \u2013 no evidence could be shown whether there was a collision between the vehicle with the dog or whether the dog went (on its own volition) under the vehicle. Both convictions were therefore quashed with costs of the appeal in favour of the Appellant. The Court agreed that this was similar to the Court of Final Appeal\u2019s judgment in \ud835\ude43\ud835\ude46\ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude3c\ud835\ude4d \ud835\ude6b \ud835\ude3e\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude63 \ud835\ude3e\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5e \ud835\ude46\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude6a\ud835\ude63\ud835\ude5c (2012) 15 HKCFAR 133.<br \/><br \/>Simon So with Herman Ho represented the Appellant in the appeal before Hon S.T. Poon J. The Full Judgement was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/lrs\/common\/search\/search_result_detail_frame.jsp?DIS=168219&amp;QS=%2B%7C%28HCMA%2C206%2F2024%29&amp;TP=JU&amp;currpage=T\">https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/lrs\/common\/search\/search_result_detail_frame.jsp?DIS=168219&amp;QS=%2B%7C%28HCMA%2C206%2F2024%29&amp;TP=JU&amp;currpage=T<\/a> . 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