Thomas Promise Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. Cheaper kill them then to provide medical treatment. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians-intentionally-2015-9 Link to comment
Beachey Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. Cheaper kill them then to provide medical treatment. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians-intentionally-2015-9 This was an accepted fact the two years I lived in China. As they explain, the economic incentive is there to kill rather than maim. Also, I think one of the many reasons why expats like me are given a car and driver. No foreign company wants to accept the liability of having one of their employees injure someone and be responsible for the next 40-50 years. Link to comment
dnoblett Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 A step in the right direction, though this should already be a given, first responders and medical providers should already be protected, and this does nothing to protect a bystander who is not certified, who may try helping an injured person. Shanghai drafts Good Samaritan Law protecting those who come to the aid of strangers The Shanghai Municipal People's Congress has started the legislative process to regulate the city's emergency health services. Under the new law, volunteers will not be held liable in emergency cases, thepaper.cn reported. The bill defines "Good Samaritans" as those with medical skills and possess a professional medical certificate.http://shanghaiist.com/2015/09/08/shanghai-drafts-good-samaritan-law.php Link to comment
MikeandRong Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 I remember one time my little cousin in law coming back home holding his side. A scooter had driven next to the sidewalk and hit him from behind with the mirror. Left a bruise bigger than my hand. I asked if we should call the police and was told no need. Just gave him a cold water towel to hold on it, not even go to the doctors. Said it was his fault for being to close to the road and he should have known better . Sure did feel sorry for the little guy. Link to comment
Randy W Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 An interview with the author in the SCMP . . . Do some Chinese drivers prefer to kill than just injure pedestrians? US lawyer explains a twisted road logic . . . Geoffrey Sant, an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University and special counsel at the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in New York, argued just that. Writing in Slate, he said that mainland China's "perverse" victims compensation law meant the cost of recompensing an injured but alive victim outweighed that of indemnifying the family of one who died. What compelled you to write about the “hit-to-kill” phenomenon recently and the gaps in victims compensation law? I was aware of the hit-to-kill phenomenon as early as the mid-1990s, when (as I mention in my article) a friend told me about it. However, I hadn’t really thought about writing it until around 2012. In 2012, I wrote an article on a different issue – the problem of substitute criminals, where a person will hire or arrange someone else to take his place in prison or court. After that article, one of my PRC [mainland Chinese] friends asked me if I planned to write next about the double-hit phenomenon. At the time, however, I felt that Western audiences wouldn’t believe the story unless I found a lot of actual videos showing it happen. This summer, I finally had some free time, and searched out videos that showed hit-to-kill cases, such as security cameras that caught drivers repeatedly driving back and forth over a pedestrian. Once I found a number of videos, I felt comfortable writing the story. Link to comment
Randy W Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Take pictures first! Not so good Samaritans snap some photos for evidence before proceeding to help collapsed man http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/alexlinder/not_so_good_samaritans.jpg Lying sprawled on the ground with blood gushing from his face, wary onlookers worried that if they were the first to help, they would be the ones blamed for all that blood. A small crowd grew before the onlookers thought to snap some preemptive pictures of the collapsed man in case he tried to sue. Safe from litigation, they approached and found that the man was badly hurt and called for ambulance for him Link to comment
dnoblett Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Probably explains several viral videos of hit and then hit again videos out of China over the past few years. This one comes to mind, caution not for the squeamish... https://youtu.be/SFjdMKJVkzQ Link to comment
dnoblett Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 A topic Randy posted 2013http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/46209-chinaazs-bystander-problem/ Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now