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18/09/2019

Safety questions after woman dies stepping off moving bus in China

  • Authorities investigating why passenger suddenly leapt to her feet and went through open door
The woman in yellow died after alighting from the moving bus in Fenggang county, Guizhou province, on Sunday. Photo: Weibo
The woman in yellow died after alighting from the moving bus in Fenggang county, Guizhou province, on Sunday. Photo: Weibo

Police in southern China are investigating the death of a woman who suddenly leapt from her seat and through the door of a moving bus on the weekend.

The unidentified woman was confirmed dead at hospital in Fenggang county, Guizhou province, on Sunday after alighting from the bus through the rear door which should have been closed, according to county police.

An officer from the county’s traffic police bureau told the South China Morning Post that an investigation into the woman’s action and the bus driver’s responsibility was under way.

Surveillance footage posted online shows the woman in a yellow top sitting near the open back door before suddenly getting up and rushing through the door.

The door then closes and the bus stops moments later as passengers appear shocked.
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The footage was shared widely online on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.

Some internet users said the woman might have been dozing and awoke suddenly thinking she had missed her stop.

Others noted that the door should not have been open.

Just late last month, a woman was injured getting off a moving bus in Chongqing as the driver accidentally opened the rear door, video news app Kankanews.com reported.

The woman, in her 60s, simply stepped off as she saw the door open and thought she had arrived at her destination.

The driver said his safety belt loosened and he accidentally triggered the door button while trying to buckle up. He was held fully responsible for the passenger’s injury.

Source: SCMP

18/05/2019

Chinese passenger tries to smash high-speed train window to ‘get some air’

  • Man hits glass with emergency hammer because ‘he had been drinking and felt ill’
The train passenger tried to smash a hole in the door glass to let in some fresh air, according to Chinese media. Photo: CNR
The train passenger tried to smash a hole in the door glass to let in some fresh air, according to Chinese media. Photo: CNR
Chinese railway police detained a passenger after he tried to smash the door window of a high-speed train to “get some fresh air” according to mainland media reports.
The 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Xu, said he tried and failed to unlock the door and then decided to break the glass with an emergency hammer because he had been drinking and felt sick, China National Radio reported on Saturday.
Xu tried to smash the door after mechanical failure had forced the Beijing-bound train from Shanghai to stop at the main railway station in Jinan in Shandong province on Tuesday.
He said the train had been stranded for half an hour when he became impatient and wanted to have some fresh air, according to the report.
A Chinese train passenger attacked the door glass of a high-speed train as it was stranded in Jinan. Photo: CNR
A Chinese train passenger attacked the door glass of a high-speed train as it was stranded in Jinan. Photo: CNR

Surveillance footage showed the man pulling on the door handle before hitting the glass with an emergency hammer mounted on a train wall.

Train staff quickly intervened and stopped Xu, who was taken into police custody after the train arrived in Beijing.

“I just smashed it once. I assumed this would allow air to come in, so I stopped,” Xu was quoted as saying.

“I felt unwell at that moment because I had been drinking at lunchtime. I did it on impulse.”

He was detained for allegedly intentionally damaging property, an offence that could lead to up to three years in jail.

The incident comes just a few months after a woman

tried to use an emergency hammer

to smash the window of a moving train on the way from Beijing to Qingdao.

The woman had been arguing with her boyfriend and hit the window in a fit of pique, according to media reports.
She was charged with criminal damage and sentenced to five days in detention.
Source: SCMP
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