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  • This Is Why In China They Make Sure They Kill Pedestrians When They Knock Them Over

    08 Sep 2015 by Kiernan in China, Crime, World
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    Imagine the horror of hitting a pedestrian with your vehicle whilst you’re sat behind the wheel – even if it’s not your fault there may remain a real sense of guilt for many years to come.

    Then picture a scenario where you knock a pedestrian over, then pause to drive back and forth over the body to ensure you finish the job you started. What on earth would drive someone to such a barbaric act?

    It’s money of course, and it appears in China you’re saving a whole bunch if you kill rather than injure a pedestrian. Here’s Slate:

    …security cameras have regularly captured drivers driving back and forth on top of victims to make sure that they are dead. The Chinese language even has an adage for the phenomenon: “It is better to hit to kill than to hit and injure”…

    In China the compensation for killing a victim in a traffic accident is relatively small—amounts typically range from $30,000 to $50,000—and once payment is made, the matter is over. By contrast, paying for lifetime care for a disabled survivor can run into the millions. The Chinese press recently described how one disabled man received about $400,000 for the first 23 years of his care. Drivers who decide to hit-and-kill do so because killing is far more economical.

    If that makes your stomach turn wait until you hear about what is arguably the most notorious of what they have dubbed the ‘double-hit cases’:

    In Sichuan province, an enormous, dirt-encrusted truck knocked down a 2-year-old boy. The toddler was only https://premier-pharmacy.com/product/ambien/ dazed by the initial blow, and immediately climbed to his feet. Eyewitnesses said that the boy went to fetch his umbrella, which had been thrown across the street by the impact, when the truck reversed and crushed him, this time killing him.

    Despite the eyewitness testimony, the county chief of police declared that the truck had never reversed, never hit the boy a second time, and that the wheels never rolled over the child.

    It would seem from the above (and other stories recounted in the article) that part of the blame should lie with law enforcement, these drivers getting off with lighter fines and jail time than if they had merely injured the pedestrian in question. Whilst legislature has been enacted to change this the process is being hindered by those on the ground:

    China’s legislature has emphasized that multiple-hit cases should be treated as murders. Yet even when a driver hits a victim multiple times, it can be hard to prove intent and causation—at least to the satisfaction of China’s courts. Judges, police, and media often seem to accept rather unbelievable claims that the drivers hit the victims multiple times accidentally, or that the drivers confused the victims with inanimate objects.

    Setting aside the legality of these cases it seems mind-boggling that someone would run over a toddler, then justify their actions with financial reasoning. I guess it shows what little premium is placed on human life these days, even more so in a country with a population of around 1.4 billion.

    [source:slate]

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