Bad driving leads to accidents

A seven-seater van crashed into a sushi takeaway yesterday morning after its driver shifted a wrong gear while parking his car outside on a street close to the Tap Seac Square.
According to the description provided during a police press conference yesterday, the crash smashed the store’s glass door, leaving the female storekeeper in her twenties wounded by the shreds.  The female driver, however, remained unscathed.
In a separate accident that occurred in the afternoon, another 62-year-old female driver caused minor injuries to three pedestrians in the northern Areia Preta neighborhood, after she reportedly accidentally stepped on the accelerator. Her van charged into the vehicles parked outside a car maintenance shop immediately after leaving the parking lot. The driver passed the breathalyzer test.
Separately, the Judiciary Police detained one croupier and four mainlanders after a casino on Cotai Strip reported their collaborative embezzlement to the authorities on Sunday. The embezzlement has since resulted in a loss of at least HKD3.4 million.
The dealer, bearing the surname Kwan, aged 38, who appeared on the casino’s payroll in 2012, has been teaming up with the other four suspects ranging from 29 to 41 in age to conduct the theft since early last month, according to the police.
It was said that she would deliberately distribute extra chips and money to the suspects while guaranteeing that they would win at the gaming tables, in a total of 48 attempts lasting from September 7 to October 4.
Upon receiving the report, the police rushed to the venue and arrested the five suspects in the act. The theft reportedly compromised the gaming operator of at least HKD3.4 million and the dealer, allegedly a gambling addict, received 30 percent of the total stolen as remuneration. AU