Chinese Toddler knocked over

[Capt Pat]

Disturbing images in this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03xkYC8Y4bg

This is really bad. A cctv clip from CHina of a girl being knocked over and then deliberately ignored and run over by the back hweels of the van. She is then ignored by passers by and left bleeding on the road before being run over by a truck. Eventually after many more people pass by as she is haemoraging blood on the road a street cleaner stops to help. The street cleaner takes the piss a bit.

[Hereiam]

Had to stop watching that, unreal. It has been said that people don't stop because of previous cases were people had stopped to help at other accidents and ended up getting the blame or paying towards costs. Its a sad reflexion on society.

[Hereiam]

Found this

After a Chinese toddler was run over by a car and left for dead by passersby in a Foshan market, some are suggesting China's legal system may deter Good Samaritans from helping accident victims.
A video culled from surveillance footage and posted on YouTube and its Chinese equivalent, Youku, shows a van driver striking the 2-year-old girl, pausing with his vehicle straddling the girl's torso, then driving forward, running her over a second time with his back wheel.

None of the 18 people who saw the 2-year-old's bloody body stopped to help. The girl, named Yueyue, was then run over again by a light-duty truck.

In Ontario, among other places, a Good Samaritan Act protects from liability those who aren't health care professionals who perform first aid on a victim at the scene of an accident. In many European countries, such as France and Germany, Good Samaritan laws impose on citizens a duty to rescue.

In China, neither type of law exists, says Pitman Potter, a law professor and Hong Kong Bank Chair in Asian Research at the University of British Columbia.

"That kind of system dissuades people from helping," Potter said. "People have been either sued by the family of the injured person or held responsible by local authorities for the harm, and so getting wrapped up in that is something people want to avoid."

In 2006, a Nanjing man who escorted an elderly woman to the hospital after she broke her leg was ordered to pay 40 per cent of the woman's medical bill. The rationale: It was inconceivable that the man would go to such lengths to help the woman if he wasn't somehow responsible for her injury.

"The reasoning of the courts is that if you hadn't done it, why would you have taken them to the hospital? No normal person would have taken them," said Donald Clarke, a law professor at George Washington University who maintains a blog on Chinese law.

Some Chinese sources also suggest the van's driver left the girl to die because compensatory damages for death are often less than for a long-term injury. For the latter, damages might include medical expenses and income compensation for missed-work time over many years. Death involves a one-off payment.

"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,180)," the van driver told the China Daily before he surrendered to police. "But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan."

China introduced compulsory car insurance five years ago. But an article in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post earlier this year said many drivers ignore the requirement.

According to Potter, personal liability insurance is also uncommon, meaning it would be financially prudent for a driver to flee an accident.

Some Chinese social media users have called the general indifference toward the girl a sign of a deteriorating moral society.

"This society is seriously ill," commented one poster on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo. "Even cats and dogs shouldn't be treated so heartlessly."

Regardless, Yueyue's mother told the China Daily she will not judge those who didn't help her daughter, who remains on life support in a Guangzhou hospital.

"I bear no grudge and refuse to be disappointed by society," she said.

[Capt Pat]

You never know until you are in a situation how you will react, but that clip is just bizarre how the people ignored that child.

[BennyHarp]

I actually felt sick watching that - the only reason i watched on was to see if someone actually helped the child and even then they werent particularly gentle with him. Truly shocking stuff.

[stew]

Nothing surprises me when it comes to the chinese. A despicable government if ever there was one.

The bastards that stood by and did nothing are pond scum.

[Hereiam]

I actually felt sick watching that - the only reason i watched on was to see if someone actually helped the child and even then they werent particularly gentle with him. Truly shocking stuff.

It was a "her"

[Hardy]

Study and understand it. These are the people who'll be ruling our grandchildren.

[sammymaguire]

That has to be one of the most disturbing things I have had the misfotune to come across in a LONG time. Shocking to watch that animal drive over that young girl and those people walk and ride past a young child who must have been in shocking distress.

[gawa316]

Why the f**k did I watch that?

Had to turn it off. I have an 18 month old and to think someone would walk passed god forbid something like this happened, has left me feeling sick and in a sweat, f**k i hope those bastards get theirs!

[guy crouchback]

i have an eighteen month old as well and  i had to turn it off, Jesus Christ what is wrong with those people how could any civilised person walk but  an injured child. I'm actually starting to think this must be a fake it could not be real, it defies belief.

[EC Unique]

I have not watched it and don't think I will having read the above comments. Humans are awful creatures at times.

[orangeman]

Sickening.

[Bingo]

I posted about it in the WTF thread and like many, couldn't watch it all. It really disturbed and annoyed me.

On Sky they suggested that in China with the one child rule that was/is in place that many get rid of their girls and try again for a boy. People may have acted that way in this case.

Just really shocking I thought.

[muppet]

I have not watched it and don't think I will having read the above comments. Humans are awful creatures at times.

Same as that. Won't be watching it.