The incident occurred in Shilong, Dongguan. The bus company claimed that the offending driver was unaware that a crash had occurred.
According to reports by Xin Kuai Bao, an accident happened on the afternoon of the previous day on Xihuh Zhong Road in Shilong Town, Dongguan City, where a town bus collided with a bicycle. A female cyclist died on the scene while a three-year-old child sitting on the backseat of the bicycle was injured. The offending driver has since been criminally detained.
The mother instinctively protected her child.
At 12:05 PM on May 11th, on Xihuh Zhong Road heading from the new district towards Xihu District in Shilong Town, Dongguan City, a public bus belonging to the Shilong Town Public Bus Company collided with a bicycle as both were turning right off Nannan Bridge. The female cyclist died on the spot, and a three-year-old child seated on the backseat was injured.
A nearby resident, Mr. Chen, stated that he was close to the bus stop at the time of the incident. According to him, the woman was riding her bike towards Jinsha Bay in Shilong with a child around four or five years old seated behind her. The bike was then hit by the rear door of the bus, causing the woman to fall under the bus and be run over by the rear wheels. When the collision occurred, the mother instinctively used her body to protect the child on the backseat, who was later seen crying and holding onto his mother's arm lying in a pool of blood.
The driver was taken away at the terminal station.
According to witness Mr. Chen, after hitting the person, the offending vehicle continued driving and only slowed down slightly when it reached the bus stop, hesitating for a couple of seconds before driving away directly.
About two or three minutes after the accident, a police officer passing by stopped and reported the incident. Subsequently, traffic police and an ambulance arrived at the scene. A security guard carried the injured child away from the side of the deceased woman, and the child was then taken away by the ambulance.
It is understood that the offending driver, surnamed Huang, has been driving for many years. He began working as a town bus driver in Shilong in 2001 and mainly handled the driving duties for Line 6 buses which transported students between the new district and Xihu District. The deceased woman was about 27 years old and hailed from Hubei Province.
Yesterday, Xin Kuai Bao contacted a Li-surnamed official from the Shilong Town Public Bus Company in Dongguan. He said, "The driver did not realize that a fatal accident had occurred, so he continued driving all the way to the terminal station. The driver was taken away by the police at the terminal station, still inside the bus."