Man lies on street talking on phone, run over by bus

by yanq867txue on 2012-03-07 09:56:32

A witness said that the man was lying on the ground and making a phone call when he was run over by a passing bus. The hit-and -run bus did not stay at the scene and drove away immediately. Around 22:21 last night, in front of No. 17 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, a 30-year-old man lying on the ground was suspected to be hit and run over by Bus No. 166 and died unfortunately. According to a security guard of a nearby hotel who witnessed the accident, the man lying on the ground was hit and run over by a vehicle, dragged for several meters, and pulled under the bottom of the bus. The bus showed no signs of braking or deceleration and left the scene normally. According to the police, the identity of the dead still remains to be confirmed. The driver of the suspected hit-and-run bus has been found and is being investigated by the traffic police department. Some passers-by witnessed the accident and reported it to the police. The accident occurred near Motel 168, No. 17 Guilin Road, Xuhui District. The Guilin Road-Guilin West Street station of Bus No. 166 was not far from the collision point. The signboard showed that the first bus of No. 166 departed at 6:01 am and the last bus at 22:21 pm. The suspected hit-and-run vehicle was the last bus. There were obvious bloodstains on the lane in front of Motel 168 yesterday, extending in a straight line to several meters away. According to the hotel security guard, the man was sitting on the ground for unknown reasons, seemingly unclear-minded. A bus suddenly came, and the man was pulled under the bottom of the bus. The road section of Guilin Road where the accident happened had three lanes in one direction with quite good road conditions, so vehicles traveling on this section generally traveled at relatively fast speeds. According to the security guard, the surveillance camera at the hotel entrance recorded that after the bus ran over the man, it showed no intention of slowing down or staying at the scene but left the scene as usual. "At that time, some passers-by happened to go through there. They called the police after seeing what happened. They said that they saw the young man half-lying on the ground, with his mobile phone screen on as if he was making a phone call. In the blink of an eye, a bus traveling from south to north came, and the man was pulled under the bottom of the bus instantly. The bus kept moving forward until he fell out from the bottom of the bus, which was more than ten meters." The security guard said. Not long after the accident, police cars and ambulances rushed to the scene immediately. After on-site examination by medical staff, the man was already dead. The lighting at the accident section was dim. In the afternoon of the same day, the reporter came to the terminal station of No. 166 on Shuangfeng Road, where several drivers were resting in the dispatching room. "We heard about the accident as soon as we went to work this morning. It's really a pity," Driver Yu said. According to Driver Yu, the suspected hit-and-run driver was an experienced driver around 50 years old who had driven buses for more than 20 years and never caused major traffic accidents before. "He (the hit-and-run driver) belongs to very experienced drivers. I met him during his night shift yesterday. I didn't expect that such an accident would happen. You can't predict what will happen while driving on the road. I think it's not intentional," Driver Yu said. According to other drivers, the accident section was relatively open with dim lights at night. Therefore, drivers generally drove carefully with high beams on while passing through there.