(Ecns.cn)--On October 13, a two-year-old girl in Foshan, Guangdong Province, was left at the edge of death after she was run over by two vehicles and ignored by a dozen passers-by until a woman collecting garbage found her mother nearby.
The doctor said that Wang Yue, known by friends and family as Yueyue, was nearly brain dead when she arrived at the hospital. By Sunday, Yueyue was still terminally ill and her condition had not improved.
Cold-blooded passers-by
The accident happened on the street of a metal wares market, where Yueyue's parents run a store.
According to the closed-circuit footage released by Southern Television Station, Yueyue was first hit by a white minivan, which had suddenly accelerated and driven over her body with one of its front wheels. However, the driver, instead of taking the girl to hospital, just halted for a moment and then drove away, with the back wheel running over her again.
The footage showed that three people walked past Yueyue after the accident, two of whom seemed to notice her before a truck ran over her another time.
The Guangdong media reported that altogether more than a dozen passers-by had walked or drove past Yueyue, but no one stopped to help.
Almost seven minutes after the hit, a woman collecting rubbish moved Yueyue to the roadside and helped find her mother, who took the girl to hospital immediately.
Wang Chichang, Yueyue's father, 31, told the South China Morning Post that he felt helpless and angry at the drivers and the passers-by who did not stop to help. "I wonder if the first driver tried to kill my daughter, considering that he might pay less compensation by doing so," said Wang.
In an interview, all the owners of some metal ware stores that are located near the accident site claimed that they never saw the girl being hit; otherwise, they would definitely have called for help.
"I did not know the girl had been hit by a car. When the woman collecting rubbish came to help her up, I thought the girl was her granddaughter," said one shopkeeper.
