Injured cows left lying at Lantau roadside for six hours after being hit by car, court told
Pilot tells how he found injured animals on his way home from work
A pilot who found a group of feral cows dead on a Lantau road told a court yesterday that it would have taken a truck or a tank to have caused them such injuries.
The car suspected to have hit the eight animals could not have emerged with just small dents unless it had machine guns in front, Steven Quilkey said.
Quilkey called the police when he came across the cows on South Lantau Road while driving from the airport to his home in Tong Fuk village at about 3.15am on June 5 last year.
He was giving evidence yesterday at the trial of Sarah Wilson, 49, a British engineer, who has pleaded not guilty to failing to submit a police form reporting an accident within 21 days.
Quilkey, who has 35 years of flying experience, said he had spent a lot of time flying in the Australian outback and had seen many road kills. The accident in June looked like an "extremely severe" one to him.
"If I had hit those cows with that car, I would have been dead," he said after being shown a picture of Wilson's vehicle, a description of which was not given in court.
