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Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:30 pm
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In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl’s grandmother shouted, “Stop! You’ve hit a child!” the BMW’s driver paused, then switched into reverse and backed up over the girl. The woman at the wheel drove forward once more, crushing the girl for a third time. When she finally got out from the BMW, the unlicensed driver immediately offered the horrified family a deal: “Don’t say that I was driving the car,” she said. “Say it was my husband. We can give you money.”
It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. And yet not only is it true, it’s fairly common; 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.”
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Most people agree that the hit-to-kill phenomenon stems at least in part from perverse laws on victim compensation. 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. Indeed, Zhao Xiao Cheng—the man caught on a security camera video driving over a grandmother five times—ended up paying only about $70,000 in compensation.
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In 2010 in Xinyi, video captured a wealthy young man reversing his BMW X6 out of a parking spot. He hits a 3-year-old boy, knocking the child to the ground and rolling over his skull. The driver then shifts his BMW into drive and crushes the child again. Remarkably, the driver then gets out of the BMW, puts the vehicle in reverse, and guides it with his hand as he walks the vehicle backward over the boy’s crumpled body. The man’s foot is so close to the toddler’s head that, if alive, the boy could have reached out and touched him. The driver then puts the BMW in drive again, running over the boy one last time as he drives away.
Here too, the driver was charged only with accidentally causing a person’s death. (He claimed to have confused the boy with a cardboard box or trash bag.) Police rejected charges of murder and even of fleeing the scene of the crime, ignoring the fact that the driver ran over the boy’s head as he sped away.
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Both China and Taiwan have passed laws attempting to eradicate hit-to-kill cases. Taiwan’s legislature reformed Article 6 of its Civil Code, which had long restricted the ability to bring civil lawsuits on behalf of others (such as a person killed in a traffic accident). Meanwhile, 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.
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:33 pm to StringedInstruments
Lol they do have the Asian driver defense
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:36 pm to StringedInstruments
Pretty fricked up
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:36 pm to StringedInstruments
makes sense. I'm tempted to run over dumb tourists whenever I have to drive through the French Quarter.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:36 pm to StringedInstruments
I read the whole thing.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:37 pm to StringedInstruments
So if we didn't have these enormous wrongful death cases in the US we'd be worse off? Thank God for the Plaintiff's lawyers.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:38 pm to StringedInstruments
This is all true and ia what people there told me when I visited. Very sad, and people get hit all the time.
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:47 pm to SUB
With 7,000,000,000 people, a brutal one-child policy that punishes families that have more than one child as well as forcing women to abort, life is cheap, there. Once you can rationalize away innocent human life at the altar of "overpopulation" or whatever else, all life loses its dignity.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:48 pm to RedPop4
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With 7,000,000,000 people
China's a pretty big place, they've gotta have twice that many people.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:49 pm to StringedInstruments
If you're rich and a psychopath you could just kill people for fun.
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:49 pm to StringedInstruments
This is beyond messed up
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:50 pm to StringedInstruments
This is what happens in cultures where life is cheap.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:51 pm to SUB
I don't care how economical it is. How can a person who isn't mentally ill justify murdering an innocent person to justify a mistake? Are we that culturally different? fricking soulless.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:53 pm to StringedInstruments
A sadistic person could argue this is capitalism at its finest. Cheaper to kill someone than pay for their lifetime of care. I guess when you have 1.4 billion people you don't have to worry about running out of warm bodies.
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:55 pm to RedPop4
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With 7,000,000,000 people
So what percent of the earth's total population is that? Just curious.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:57 pm to Brosef Stalin
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If you're rich and a psychopath you could just kill people for fun.
Yea pretty much
Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:57 pm to NYNolaguy1
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A sadistic person could argue this is capitalism at its finest.
no
Posted on 9/4/15 at 3:00 pm to ShoeBang
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So what percent of the earth's total population is that? Just curious.
Right at 100%
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 3:02 pm to StringedInstruments
Life is cheap over there. They'll get what's coming to them sooner or later.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 3:03 pm to ShoeBang
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So what percent of the earth's total population is that? Just curious.
Sounds like a great question for google
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