2 year old hit and run victim - graphic!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECeC4R-Gjtc

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Sad....the Reporter needs to go to JAMAICA to see how we 'value' life.

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I actually thought it happened in Jamaica!

Passers-by ignore toddler involved in hit and run
Tuesday, October 18, 2011



BEIJING, China (AP) — A video showing a toddler being struck twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn't help the child.

The two-year-old girl, identified as Wang Yue, is in a coma in critical condition in the Guangzhou Military District General Hospital following Thursday's accident, state media reported. The Guangzhou Daily quoted the hospital's head of neurosurgery as saying the girl is likely to remain in a vegetative state if she survives.

A closed-circuit television video obtained by state media shows the toddler wandering along a narrow market street in the city of Foshan when she is struck by a van. As several people walk or cycle by, the child lies in a pool of blood and is then hit by another van. All told local media count 18 people passing by before a trash collector finally picks up the child and gives her to a woman identified as her mother.

The case is the latest heavily publicised example of Chinese in distress being ignored by fellow citizens in a phenomenon seen as illustrating the corrosive effect China's headlong pursuit of economic growth has had on public ethics.

"This brings a blow to our morality," news reader Yan Yanzi from Southern Television Guangdong said in a report that has been uploaded to video-sharing sites. "Where was your conscience? It is really disappointing news to watch, really disappointing," she said at the end of the report.

The TV report has been viewed more than two million times on the Internet television site of Youku.com Inc. China's version of Twitter, Sina Corp.'s Sina Weibo, has drawn 4.4 million comments and organised them under the hash tag "Please end the cold-heartedness”.

Police arrested the driver of the second van the night of the accident and the driver of the first van, whose license plate was obscured in the surveillance video, on Sunday. Some online comments have demanded harsh punishment for the drivers.

"The drivers should be shot. No to any cooling down," Zeng Ziming said in a posting on his Sina Weibo feed.

The bitterest outrage, however, has been directed at those who ignored the injured child and at society's indifference. "Society is progressing, but human nature is regressing. These 18 passers-by are afraid of getting themselves into trouble," said a Weibo posting under the name She De.

While decrying the decay in social morality, many commentators have also pointed to China's lack of legal protections, such as a "Good Samaritan" law that would protect people from lawsuits if they try to help others in distress.

In another case that touched off public debate, an 81-year-old woman who had fallen to the ground unconscious accused a bus driver who tried to help her of knocking her over and causing her injury in the first place. Last week, state media reported that an American woman saved a Chinese woman from drowning in West Lake, a famous scenic spot in the eastern city of Hangzhou; commentators noted that only a foreigner would dare such a rescue.

"Although saving people constantly brings 'trouble,' nonetheless, ignoring the dying or even helping with evil acts by negligence is ripping apart society's ethical baseline and dissolving any sense of conscience deep in the souls of the public," commentator Li Hongbing wrote in People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party.


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Didn't a toddler get lick down at Dover yesterday?

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Boy seriously injured at Dover race

An 11-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after being hit by a racing motorcar during Monday's Dover Meet in St. Ann.

The child sustained head and chest injuries after attempting to cross the track while one of the races was in progress.

The incident occurred about 3:30 while spectators were rushing to view one of the cars that had crashed during the race.

The boy, who was among the group of curious onlookers, was struck by one of the cars which was proceeding around the track on the final lap.

The child, who is from Retirement in Brown's Town, St. Ann was rushed to hospital where he was admitted.

The matter is being investigated by the Brown's Town Traffic Department.

Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, head of the Police Traffic Department, told RJR News he expects a report on the incident before the end of the week.

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An 11-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after being hit by a racing motorcar during Monday's Dover Meet in St. Ann.

The child sustained head and chest injuries after attempting to cross the track while one of the races was in progress.

The incident occurred about 3:30 while spectators were rushing to view one of the cars that had crashed during the race.

The boy, who was among the group of curious onlookers, was struck by one of the cars which was proceeding around the track on the final lap.

The child, who is from Retirement in Brown's Town, St. Ann was rushed to hospital where he was admitted.

The matter is being investigated by the Brown's Town Traffic Department.

Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, head of the Police Traffic Department, told RJR News he expects a report on the incident before the end of the week.

The adult who was with the child should be charged for negligence. How the hell do you have an 11 year old attempting to cross a track while a race is in progress

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Chinese province debates law after hit-and-run outcry

A Chinese province is debating the introduction of a law to force people to help others in obvious distress.

It comes after a two-year-old girl was left for dead after being run over by a van - and then ignored by 18 passers-by.

She is currently in hospital fighting for her life.

The law might never be enacted - but even discussing such a measure shows the level of anger generated in China by this case.

The fallout from this incident, which happened in the city of Foshan in southern Guangdong Province, continues.

'Promoting morals'
Provincial groups from the ruling Communist Party, government departments and associations are talking about a new law.

This could make it illegal for people to ignore those in need of help.

"Many laws, including forbidding drunken driving, in China have been passed after high-profile individual cases," said lawyer Zhu Yongping, according to a report in the English-language China Daily.


Other media outlets report that the introduction of a law will be debated at a meeting of lawyers next month.

Initial online polls, though, suggest most people are against it.

"Talk about being civilised first. Is anyone paying attention to that?" read one posting.

Organisations in Guangdong are also looking at other ways to encourage people to act with compassion when faced with an emergency.

The provincial government's political and legal affairs committee is using its micro-blog site to gather opinions about how to "guide brave acts for just causes" and promote "socialist morals".

This debate has been sparked by an accident last week involving the toddler Wang Yue.

She was knocked down by a van while wandering through a market, where her parents run a shop. The driver sped off without checking on the girl's condition.

Over the following minutes, 18 people went past the bleeding toddler - and another van ran over her legs - but no one stopped to help.

It was all recorded by a surveillance camera, with the distressing footage shown on television.

There have been millions of internet comments about how to encourage good Samaritans - and many more expressing outrage that so many people refused to help.