The van carrying the "band" was smashed.
The incident happened yesterday in Wantang Village, Anliu Town, Wuhua County. The van carrying the "band" collided head-on with a farm vehicle, resulting in five deaths and two serious injuries.
Wuhua (reported by Ye Shixin, communicated by Chen Chao-Hua, photography reporting) - At around 1 PM yesterday, a major traffic accident occurred on the S238 Provincial Road in Wantang Village, Anliu Town, Wuhua County. A van carrying a rural "band" collided with an unlicensed farm vehicle loaded with red bricks, causing five deaths and two serious injuries.
After the accident, Mei州市 Mayor Li Jia gave instructions on the rescue work, requiring full efforts to save the injured and properly handle the aftermath, while at the same time accelerating the investigation of the accident cause, increasing traffic rectification efforts, and strictly preventing similar accidents from happening again.
One of the deceased was an 8-month-old girl.
It was understood that on the morning of that day, Chen Mou (male, 38 years old) from Anliu Town, Wuhua County, led a rural "band" he organized to play music for a funeral in Zhoujiang Town nearby.
After lunch, Chen drove a white van carrying 12 band members and one 8-month-old girl back from Zhoujiang Town to Anliu Town. On the way, passing through the S238 Provincial Road in Wantang Village, Anliu Town, Wuhua County, it collided violently with an oncoming unlicensed farm vehicle fully loaded with red bricks. The farm vehicle overturned, but the driver was uninjured. However, the roof of the "band" van was torn apart, the girl died on the spot, the van driver Chen suffered serious injuries and lost consciousness, and the rest of the musicians were all injured to varying degrees and were sent to the hospital for treatment.
By 9 PM last night when this report was filed, four seriously injured people died in the hospital after ineffective rescue.
The farm vehicle driver has been controlled.
After the accident, Wuhua County Party Secretary Li Jianping led county leaders and personnel from the county public security, traffic police, safety supervision, health departments to the scene to command the rescue work, and established an accident handling leadership group to actively carry out the treatment of the injured, properly handle the aftermath, and investigate the cause of the accident. Relevant responsible persons from the Meizhou City Traffic Police Brigade and the Meizhou City Safety Supervision Department also quickly rushed to the accident site for accident disposal.
Currently, the farm vehicle driver has been controlled by the public security organs, and the cause of the accident is still under investigation. Starting from yesterday, Wuhua County organized and carried out a traffic safety accident隐患排查整治action to ensure that similar accidents do not happen again.