"After receiving the alarm, we immediately dispatched traffic police to the scene to maintain order. Due to the road being blocked after the accident occurred, drivers and passengers in other blocked vehicles also got out to watch. The number of onlookers reached nearly a hundred at its peak, but not a single person went up to loot the cash on the ground," said Officer Yang from the Bijie Traffic Police Team who responded to the accident.
Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported that on February 13, a three-car collision occurred on the Gui-Bi Highway in Zhongshan Town, Qianxi County, Guizhou Province. One of the drivers had over 40,000 yuan scattered on the ground. Among the nearly a hundred people present at the scene for rescue and sightseeing, no one looted the money. The 40,000 yuan was eventually returned intact.
According to reports, the scattered 40,000 yuan was coal purchase money prepared by the truck driver in Guiyang. After collecting and counting, the traffic police department found the total amount of cash to be 41,805 yuan. After verification with the truck driver, he confirmed that "not a cent was missing." It is reported that seven people were injured to varying degrees in this accident, but none of them were seriously hurt.
I learned from the Bijie Traffic Police Team that the accident happened at noon on the 13th when a large truck collided with a minibus carrying dozens of people and a large bus carrying more than 20 people. During the accident, the bag containing over 40,000 yuan on the passenger seat of the truck was thrown into the air, and the hundred-yuan bills scattered all over the ground. "After the incident, more than ten passengers got off the vehicle. Seeing the scattered hundred-yuan bills, no one at the scene rushed to loot them. Everyone was busy reporting the emergency and helping other injured people," Mr. Li, an eyewitness, introduced the situation after the accident to the reporter.