A Chinese truck driver who ran over and killed a 5-year-old boy has been accused of deliberately reversing over the child after hitting him to ensure he would not have to pay his medical costs.
5-year-old Xiong Maoke was said to be on his way home from his kindergarten in Sichuan province when he was hit by a truck.
Eyewitnesses were left dumbfounded by what they say they saw happen to him:
I saw the truck coming, the children were walking by the side of the road, not in the street.
He fell, but after being knocked over, immediately stood up again and bent over to pick up his umbrella.
I saw the truck move back a little and then move forward again, Xiong Maoke became wrapped up in the wheel, and then the truck continued forward another 10 meters.
‘What are you doing? Stop!’ I yelled. The truck halted and the driver exited, cursed, and walked away.
The driver offered to pay compensation, but has apparently not been forthcoming in explaining how the accident occurred.
It has been alleged that one of the arrested drivers in the recent “Yue Yue” case told the girl’s father that he fled the scene because “If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan.” He supposedly hit her because he was busily nattering on a mobile phone.
Local villagers assert that the truck driver deliberately ensured the boy died to limit his liability.
Chinese state press claims the latest incident was an unfortunate accident, uncritically reporting the verdict of local police and officials that he was only hit once, died instantly, and that the driver was the first to call police, and going on to imply that the incident may have been exacerbated by villagers more interested in compensation than the fate of the boy.
However, given the level of outcry over the last such incident, the authorities may have their own motivation for ensuring the incident does not become yet another focus for public discontent.
Given that incidents of accident victims making false claims in order to claim compensation from bystanders are not unknown in China, and may have played a role in the reluctance of Chinese to help “Yue Yue,” unfortunately either explanation seems quite plausible – only the fact that another small child died horrifically and at least one party acted disgracefully is beyond dispute.
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What the hell..
And after that no so recent incident of running down a 2 year old girl and being ignored..
All this recent news is starting to lead me to believe that Chinese people primarily look out for themselves.
Yes, you can argue that this is true for many, if not most, people ... but to this degree? Ensuring a child's death to minimize liability?
after car, now truck
what next? tank? plane?
Maybe an APC..
Nah .
Probably chinese snorlax.
bicycle, oxen used for plowing the farm, a falling house, exploding chair, a man doing cartwheels, etc.
...
tractor, derailed train, fat man on pogo stick, child falls through popsicle stick man cover then explodes
amidoinitright?
tank was done by the government in 04/06/1989 in tiananmen square
22 years ago at this place, nothing happened.
It's gettin really popular. I mean hittin little kids with car and ignoring it. Oh, that chinese...
That Chinese truck driver.. he really needs his body pressed flat.. he must never be allowed to drive again or else this will happen again and again..
Ah the kneejerk reaction.
Yes, let's stop all truck drivers from ever driving so innocent little kids don't get killed by accident. In fact, let's just dispose of all trucks and cars.
This is a he said, she said situation. One villager said he delibrately ran over him again while the driver says that the villager is exaggerating the incident (no doubt due to the other recent incident).
All that we know is that the driver is the first one to call to police.
Err.. did you read this part?
"Chinese state press claims.."
For what I can think of, is that the media is simply being inaccurate.
yes called them first, which we ALL know makes you look Less guilty... dun dun dunnnn
"yes called them first, which we ALL know makes you look Less guilty... dun dun dunnnn"
Well he only had three choices. 1) Call them first. 2) Call them later. 3) Flee the scene.
He chose the one option that most people were blaming the Chinese bystanders didn't do in the other incident.
“If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan.”
Wait, so does that mean that... the act of killing itself doesn't count as a crime in China?? WTF
It still counts as a crime at China, but the problem is that:
1) People are ignorant about other people's lives
2) They care more about money than the lives of the people
3) They might get sued, so they better "pretend nothing happens"
*sigh* Pathetic people really..
Money is only imprtant and powerful, because we humans give it importance and power. If people would say "Hell we won't use money or any currency anymore" than money will become what it is in reallity: NOTHING.
Well as my dad told me.. money = happiness.
true.. but hey.. you don't have to sacrifice people's life just for the sake of saving MONEY..
Anon mind telling me how much is your life worth? Can i buy it for 20000 yuan ($3,125)?
Then we resort to bartering and the situation is still the same. Instead of paying $10,000 now you'll have to pay 3 cows or a plot of land or some property.
Money is merely a convenience. Humans will always put worth in some things. There will always be people that are more fortunate than others. Removing money from the world won't change that.
@Frost_Byte
the unfortunate truth is, when given the choice, nobody would pick the more expensive option anywhere. The only thing stopping people from developed countries from doing this is that killing the victim is much, much more costly there.
C the money of Soul and Possibly COntrol
@DoubleX31 if there wasn't currency there would be straight up sentencing. You would be exiled or killed, not traded for 3 cows and some plot of land. That's how people dealt with criminals in other societies with no currency (Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, Tribal Africans, etc etc)
@02:29
Money => Power =but-also=> greed and chaos.
Nuff said.
chine babi, bodoh & bangang
I didn't down vote you, but the cultural revolution surely killed off the morals of many people in China, and it still have it's effects on their descendants, I guess...
It's okay.. who cares about the voting anyway..
The cultural revolution.. one of China's most traumatic history really..
My grandpa and my parents.. who are Chinese Indonesians (which makes me one as well).. are very, very lucky to be Indonesia when that happened..
>chinese
>lucky to be in indonesia
huh?
@kamiru
Long story:
My grandparents moved from China to Indonesia years ago and settled there. My parents are born in Indonesia. They're lucky to be at Indonesia when that brutal revolution happened at China..
Seems like it's just marked off as an accident and nothing happen to driver beside paying $3k... can any chinese person care to say what is standard punishment for this type of thing?
And still what the hell happened to the drivers that killed yue girl? I didn't find any news that show the drivers pictures, criminal sentences, or even names and ages, like most news reports as standard... seem like it was made up unless I missed a news source.
Don't just assume that everyone that hit a person did it on purpose.
Accidents do happen. If he really didn't care, he wouldn't have stuck around and immediately called the police.
Who knows if he really did run him over a second time. It's one witness vs the driver. It's possible the witness might have exaggerated the incident to make the incident look worse and himself better for trying to stop it. After that old lady received a large reward... who knows.
defending a Bit to much there bud. It's China... you can just imagine it and it prolly is true and No I'm Not saying that I Assume everything said up there is true either.
Even it's an accident, the one who caused this need to "pay" in JAIL, jails in mainland China are nothing like the "hotels" in western Europe!
DoubleX31
I think you missed the part that it was more than one witness... it was a bunch of local villagers LOL. But your right in that they can be lying trying to get compensation, that is exactly what the driver accused them with as said in the article. Seems that China just a paranoid greedy mess right now can't trust each other at all unfortunately.
So the guy with common sense gets vote down while the comment with China bias gets vote up? WTF is this? Oh wait...nvm I should have known.
@20:36
He stated "It's one witness vs the driver."
When the article says it's more than one witness, in fact its a bunch of local villager people.
it's just swapping one gamble for another.
paying compensation for injured might as well end your life given how expensive it is.
killing them, however, can get you anywhere between a few years to the death penalty, that and there's no guarantee they can catch you.
But yes, they do execute people who pull this off, even ones in semi-power. Google Yao Jiaxin.
ur an idiot. multiple witnesses PLUS there is multiple video streams showing how this crime has been enacted throughout main China. If my kid got hit by a car damn straight I'd try to get massive bucks from the driver - plain and simple i'd be pissed the fuk off
I don't know which fact I need to complain on; the fact that he's too heartless to kill the poor kid just to avoid medical charge or the fact how stupid he is to think that he could run away with destroying almost 100% of the kid by squashing him whole..
Then it's murder, right? If you planned to kill in order to avoid high medical costs, that's MURDER. You know, you still can sue someone for causing a death of a child, who may have become a doctor etc.. if he hasn't died so young for the loss of future income of that child.
That's my point; the guy just showed the ultimate limit of human stupidity by doing a worse crime rather than just killing/hurting someone by accident. It's like a dude who was caught red handed while having sex with his girlfriend by her father, but then somehow decided to murder the girl right in the exact spot believing that may shut her up from revealing that they've been mating since junior highschool to her father.
Calm down, given how this is a Sankaku article, that actually stated that the matter is not clear. Chances are, it might not be as bad as the accusation claim to be
i guess ill start of with fuck the USA
How about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up? :)
I don't see anything in this article that Americans are insulting China or something.
So please.. learn to think before you write.. okay?
Fuck, I was eating!
Well.. you could have not looked at the pictures -.-
he could have been fapping
fapping.. and eating.. right.. ._.
FUCK YOU ALL AND DIE!
Depends...what he was "eating...":)
Using the same hand?
fapping and eating..,,whatever floats your boat you loser/faggot.
Eating while looking at Sankaku? Anon you are not very smart are you?
Don't expect Sankaku every article is gonna be naked girls picture as side-dish for you :P
On the other hand who would expect china to run over yet another child so soon.
No wonder people say nowadays that Chinese aren't human.
When were they human?
What defines "human"?
@darkrockslizer
Nothing, it's just a word. There is nothing behind words only more signs, which doesn't bring us anywhere.
1.2 million people were killed in traffic accidents around the world in 2004.
This translates to 3,288 per day.
Assuming all countries have an equal number of cars, this translates to 16 a day per country.
Yes, it's very surprising they ran someone else over "so soon".
its chinese in CHINA, not all chinese
Fuck it, be free, work hard, steal everything, live like a Pirate King
Marine rx is a faggot ass loser..
That desk over there belongs to the queerest fashion designer in the whole wide world.. wait what, what are you randomly trying to point here again?