HER car collided head-on with a tour bus. But when paramedics tried to check if the driver was injured, she told them to "take off, now".

Then she allegedly refused to take a breathalyser test and reportedly slapped a police officer.

The driver, Amina Mariam Bokhary, 33, has since been arrested, reported the Standard.

She is the niece of Justice Kemal Bokhary, one of the three permanent judges on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal.

The accident took place at around 12.15am on Wednesday.

Police said Bokhary was driving on Stubbs Road when her car crossed into the opposite lane and collided with a bus, reported the South China Morning Post.

She had no visible injuries, and was checked by paramedics as she sat on a stretcher.

Television footage taken by a TVB cameraman shows her telling paramedics: "Take off, now."

She then left the stretcher and sat on the pavement before returning to her damaged car.

The video then shows Bokhary in the rear passenger seat telling a policeman: "I don't understand what you are saying."

EVIDENCE: Video showing Amina Mariam Bokhary (far left) allegedly slapping an officer who blocked her way.

Bipolar disorder

She appears to have then hit a file held by an officer. Bokhary later got out of the vehicle and said: "I don't care. I need to leave."

A policeman tried to stop her by holding her left arm, but she told him not to touch her.

The footage showed Bokhary apparently slapping an officer who blocked her way.

She was then handcuffed and taken to a police station. She has been released on HK$5,000 ($900) bail and ordered to report to the police next month.

A police spokesman said Bokhary and the 33-year-old bus driver were unhurt.

This is not Bokhary's first brush with the law. In June 2001, she assaulted a policeman and damaged a spotlight outside a bar. She was fined HK$9,000.

In July 2008, she assaulted a female police officer and a taxi driver. There had been a dispute over the taxi fare, and Bokhary kicked the driver and hit the officer with her handbag.

She was sentenced to the maximum of 240 hours community service and fined HK$1,000.

Bokhary suffers from bipolar disorder and was ordered to continue her psychiatric treatment.

Asked to comment on the latest incident, Commissioner of Police Tang King-shing told the South China Morning Post: "That citizen paid no respect to law enforcers at all. She forgets that law enforcers maintain law and order for public safety."

He said officers will deal with each case fairly and will take their personal safety into account.

This article was first published in The New Paper.