Gruesome footage of a toddler falling victim to two successive hit-and-run accidents and then being ignored by many passers-by at the scene last week in southern China continued to galvanize the nation Monday, prompting a fierce debate on the state of morality in Chinese society.
A security camera captured the horrific incident last Thursday outside a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong Province. Two-year-old Wang Yue was seen toddling in the middle of a narrow street and looking around, oblivious to a fast-approaching white van.
The disturbing video shows the van knocking the girl over. The driver briefly stops with the girl underneath the van, before continuing on, its rear tires slowly rolling over her small body. The girl is left barely moving in her own blood as several pedestrians and cyclists pass by.
Minutes later, another small truck drives over Wang without slowing down, the video shows. More passers-by walked, cycled or drove around her motionless body without stopping -- until a woman carrying a sack appeared 10 minutes after the initial collision. Dropping her sack, she quickly moved the girl to safety and went to look for help.
Wang remained in critical condition Monday afternoon in a military hospital in the nearby city of Guangzhou.
At the time of the accident, Wang was busy tending his shop while his wife was hanging laundry, and neither noticed their daughter had wandered outside, state media reported.
"I feel helpless and angry," the father said. "Had one passer-by stopped to help earlier, this whole thing wouldn't have been so tragic."
In recent years, assisting victims in traffic accidents or other emergency situations has become controversial in China. In an attempt to cover costly medical expenses, several senior citizens, injured in accidents that were their own fault, turned against people who helped them at the scene by suing the good Samaritans for compensation, according to state media.
Outrage in China: Toddler Run Over Twice, Then Ignored 2011
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Uploaded by linktv on Oct 21, 2011
(LinkAsia: October 21, 2011) A toddler has died from injuries she sustained after being hit by two cargo vans. Surveillance camera footage not only captured the hit and run incident, but documened something possibly more shocking- that more than a dozen people passed by her body and only one person stopped to help. Sydnie Kohara interviews journalist Maureen Fan about the public outcry following this incident.
People in China Disheartened After Hit-and-Run Incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooCupFnH9LoI understand how you feel Keith . As they say , : Hindsight is 20/20."
Can you be certain that if you had stopped they would have accepted your help?
I cant even bring myself to watch this.
This is why I tell daughter NOT to even ride a horse along these roads around here. It's too dangerous as drivers around here will hit ANYTHING on the road including a BULL.
Some dude got hit and killed on the highway more than a year ago and got ran over THREE times before someone called 911. I mean, you gotta be blind as a damn bat if you cannot see a person laying on the highway injured! All this guy did was pull over on the shoulder, and get out of his car before someone hit him thowing him into the highway. No there were no vehicles following the first vehicle that hit him. Someone following 1/2 mile back saw the other two vehicles hit the guy and keep driving so they were the ones that called 911.