Scores Killed in “China Quality” Bullet Train Accident
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 24, 2011 01:52 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Accidents, China, Copyright, Made in China, Trains, Zhejiang
A major accident on China’s much trumpeted new high speed rail system has prompted the inevitable “China quality” denunciations online.
The train derailed crossing a bridge, with two carriages falling off the bridge into the river below. Rail authorities claim a “lightning strike” was responsible, causing a train to lose power on the bridge, only to be smashed into by another train approaching from behind.
Initial reports indicate at least 11 fatalities and 89 injured; each carriage had a capacity of 100.
China has been accused of flagrantly pirating Japan’s Shinkansen, even going so far as to sell the copies overseas, and the father of its high speed rail program has been arrested for massive corruption – all facts which have resulted in massive schadenfreude in Japan, although there is some disappointment that no explosions were involved:
“It’s here!”
“China quality, as ever…”
“Independently developed.”
“Do some inspections!”
“There were no earthquakes or anything and it still derailed?”
“That was quick.”
“Weren’t they supposed to be more advanced than Japanese trains?”
“I hope there are no fatalities.” [casualty figures were not yet released]
“If there was anyone on that train you can bank on there being dozens dead.”
“From Japanese TV:”
”She’s half smiling…”
“So it derailed before it could explode.”
“What kind of track are they using…”
“Will they sue Kawasaki and JR East for damages?”
“This is a huge accident, isn’t it?”
“This is horrible.”
“They’re selling this stuff overseas?”
“Honestly, I didn’t expect something this bad.”
“Has one exploded yet?”
“China isn’t really ready for high speed rail.”
“There is no way China is going to be able to maintain these systems safely.”
“This is the beta version. The Chinese can count themselves lucky the bugs are being caught early on.”
“Was there a problem with the bridge?”
“If there was you really can’t laugh about this…”
“High speed rail is too much for China at this time.”
“You can’t just copy trains like that – they’re missing the ability to manage and maintain the system.”
“The Japanese ones have never derailed except in one major earthquake and the only fatality the system ever experienced was from someone getting trapped in a door.”
“Maybe the rails exploded and threw the train off the tracks?”
“Nobody is going to buy their trains after seeing this.”
“It was one of these:”
”It could not have derailed in a worse possible place.”
“This is a major accident!”
“My prayers are with the departed. They died for political reasons, and even Japan has TEPCO so you can’t laugh about something like this.”
“I expect they are going to try and cover this up and minimise it.”
“Well, it hasn’t exploded yet so they are doing well, for China.”
“We can only pray that not too many people perished. Rest in peace…”
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i saw this coming
Yep definitely saw it coming a mile away.
I saw your 1 mile-long dick cuming.
I'm sure u like to watch dicks cuming.
I saw it coming like a head on collision.
...too soon?
not one person on this site expected any different, well we did expect explosions instead of derailing but nevertheless we see a failure.
R.I.P. for the people who were foolish enough to trust a chinese pirate train
Guess they are not ready yet
It's already derailed, that was really fast.
"A lightning strike". Yes. I'm sure. chinaquality.jpg
For many Chinese, a lightning strike equals to a divine punishment, right? Anyway, accidents happen everywhere in the world, even in Germany, UK, US etc. where safety measures are so much higher than in China, even without lighting and thunder. In general these kind of accidents happened due to human negligence; people make mistakes, not only in China, it's everywhere.
Yeah. Like the A/Cs on German highspeed trains failing as soon as it actually gets hot outside (gasp!). You can't open the windows on the new ones anymore, so there actually were some fatalities from people basically stewing into heat death last summer.
That one's due to Railway companies being capitalist and not spending their money where it needs to be spent.
maybe the train got horny and decided to clash with the other train? yaoi?
R.I.P.
Never enough of this kind of sentiment.
Never enough.
RIP - Keep the ball rolling.
That was... *sunglasses* fast.
ahead too fast... need to learn more, not by just popping mega-project and end like this.
my imagination since January this year become a reality now
RIP
also Bieber fans are crying .....
China quality indeed. There aren't any way to inform other trains that one train stopped? No central management system in place, to see them?
Heck not even a simple, battery-powered radio to inform other trains that they've stopped, and if you're on the same line, you better stop as well?
As always, Epic Fail. Made in China.
Another successful failure.
“So it derailed before it could explode.”
Guess everyone's waiting for this.
God, I hope there's no one on board when it happens...
“So it derailed before it could explode.”
If they would only have hired Michael Bay...
Thats oxymoronic^^
It was so fast it went in slo-motion heh heh how's that.........not good?
This was really quick!!
But I was expecting explosions, lets do it better so we can see them explode!
They did report that the train was struck by lightning ya know. You can't really have magnetism on the track if it took thousands of watts of electricity and the connection could have also short-circuited making unusable. You know,it's not a good idea to make fun of the dead even if you hate there race. If you can't feel at least a little bit of empathy for the victims of the crash, you will be better off being a heartless murderer.
This is the stupidest comment ever.
So you don't think it's wrong for people to die.
Anon 3:16 is right you know, it's not cool to point and laugh at recently departed peeps
Not making fun of the dead, just the morons that caused the disaster.
Pretty funny for the Japs to hate on the Chinese after everything they have done to them during WW2. Some people never learn the first time around I guess.
Who are the "they" and who are the "them"
Don't go moralizing... If you think there is a country that hasn't done wrong to another in a WAR, you're an idiot.
And why the hell do people keep bringing up stuff from half a century ago? It's pathetic. Don't go blaming people about something their fathers or grandfathers have done.
Chinese proverb
"We have met the enemy and they are us".
Appologies to Pogo! ;)
"Don't go blaming people about something their fathers or grandfathers have done." Right, seems like someone forgot that 70% of japan consists of 90 year old zombies.
You mean it's pretty funny for the chinks to have failed to properly rip this technology off from the Japanese and try to sell this garbage off to other countries.
I'd tell you to go fuck yourself, but I think a more appropriate expression of dismissal in this instance is to tell you to go ride a chinky train.
@anon 03:48
Well typical response for racist asshat english speaker. I guess members don't hide the fact they support racist fucks. Well done Sankaku members. Deny how much you want members, but denial must be your fortei.
@anon 3:37 & 3:42
Yeah...say the to the Jewish community at large.
@ Anon 03:16
They don't have lightning storms in Japan?
Give me a break!
By the way I don't hate the Chinese people only their stupid fucking government.
^^ it is china quality ya know,like u said earlier u cannot pirate quality and the problem was probably quality. If ya don't believe what the dude said tell me what u think.^^
This has more to do with extreme bad luck in combination with poor safety measures rather than quality of the trains, besides trains have been hit by lightning in other countries (e.g. UK or USA); as always these kinds of accident happened because people were being careless, nothing more and nothing less.
Why do the replies to my comment not really related to what I've just said?
"They did report that the train was struck by lightning ya know."
You mean the state media reported the train involved in the accident getting struck by lightning. What I meant is that the other (second) train who collided with the immobilized train should have gotten information about the stationary train immediately after it (the first train getting struck by lightning and forced to stop) happened to avoid the collision in the first place.
"You can't really have magnetism on the track if it took thousands of watts of electricity and the connection could have also short-circuited making unusable."
Another irrelevant point, all I said is some simple measures would have avoided this from happening (talking about the collision obviously) in the first place.
"You know,it's not a good idea to make fun of the dead even if you hate there (sic) race."
Uh, yeah. So criticizing their lack of measures to avoid such events in the first place is "making fun of the dead" now?
"If you can't feel at least a little bit of empathy for the victims of the crash, you will be better off being a heartless murderer."
Uh, yeah. So criticizing their lack of measures to avoid such events in the first place means I "can't feel at least a little bit of empathy" and I'd be "better off being a heartless murderer" now?
EDIT: Anon(873887) - See ryusoma's comment for further enlightenment.
There were two train involved, first train stop due to power lost by lighning strike. Second train hit the first train from behide at speed cause this accident. poor communication, safety, and management. Something like this would never happens in other countries when their priorty is about keeping people safe.
Eh, I am sure there are quite major accidents with trains too here in the west with superior safety rules. I also hear about the lightning hitting the first train which cause it to stop while the second one hit the first train from behind. This has nothing to do with the quality of the trains itself, more with unfortune/bad luck. And the people who made jokes about this incident/accident, go to hell, people have died here, even when they are Chinese they are still people like you and me!
Yes, I'm sure it was struck by lightning. Just like I'm sure the North Korean women's team were struck by lightning and just happened to test positive for illegal substances "due to the lightning strike". It's not like china has a reputation for poor quality and north korea has a reputation for doing anything and everything to promote nationalism including cheating. Nothing to see here folks. Move along...
Dude, you might as well have just admitted that you're from China. I've never seen anyone in these comments make a racist comment about Chinese people, and the comment you're referring to certainly didn't either. This is a political/social problem in China, not a inherent problem with the Chinese race. So I've said it many times before, and I think its never been more fitting or true then now, EPIC - CHINA - FAIL.
You know, you know... you know, you know, you know... dumbass.
They aren't even maglev trains. SO WTF has "magnetism" got to do with it? FUCKING RETARD.
China has once again played a bittersweet joke on itself, and it's sad that innocent commuters paid the price for it. Don't be so quick to buy the lightning excuse though; talk about thinly veiled lies.
I'm just wondering, how is it that they're not wearing shirts? If you're involved in a train crash do you have to take your shirt as a safety measure? Or was the crash too intense that their shirts exploded?
Maybe he was on the can when it cra... okay, nevermind. Actually, those guys were probably asleep, if it was late at night.
Those places are hot even at night especially now that it's summer.
Considering China's track record on safe construction, its likely the trains skimp out on numerous safety features and redundencies.
Sorry dude but not always thats working ... better look at US train accidents and then talk ...
That is indeed weird. Normally, with segment signals in place, and with them decently spaced, the following train conductor should have had time to brake.
But nowadays, I guess traffic could get tight either near stations or on bridges with few lanes.
Keep in mind a highspeed train needs more than a mile to come to a halt. Possibly several.