Our newspaper, Ankang News (reported by Bo Ping Zhao), reported that in the middle of the night, two vehicles had a minor scrape accident. Unexpectedly, the offending driver called over 20 young men who were armed with large machetes over 80 centimeters long and iron rods. They injured three people from the side of the car that was hit, then forcibly took away the offending truck.
At around 9 p.m. on January 2nd, the engineering vehicle with the license plate "Shan G08696" was traveling from east to west when it reached the secondary road entrance of Dong Bridge in Chengguan Town, Hanyin County, where it collided with a large truck with the license plate "Shan G09310". The front glass of the engineering vehicle was shattered, but instead of stopping, the offending large truck continued to move forward. After chasing for over 2 kilometers, Zhou, the driver of the engineering vehicle, and Peng, the owner of the vehicle, managed to stop the offending vehicle. Both parties agreed to wait for the owner of the offending vehicle to come and negotiate a solution.
"We never expected them to call seven cars and over 20 people, who got out of the cars and asked where the 'fat driver' was," said Yang Yanqun, mother of Peng, the owner of the vehicle yesterday. Over 20 people, armed with large machetes, first intimidated the onlookers to keep them from stepping forward. Then they smashed the engineering vehicle with iron rods and stones and injured the relatives of the driver and the vehicle owner who tried to stop them. Subsequently, they forcibly drove away the offending large truck. The entire violent process lasted only about ten minutes.
Yang Yanqun said that actually, if the glass of the engineering vehicle was broken, the repair cost would not exceed 200 yuan, and both vehicles had insurance, so compensation would be handled by the insurance company. However, the offending party not only damaged the car but also injured people.
Yesterday, I saw the three injured individuals at Hanyin County Hospital and Hanyin County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Among them, a female victim lost two teeth and had her left eye swollen; a male victim had a cut on his head that required six stitches; another male victim had multiple soft tissue contusions all over his body and was receiving intravenous treatment at the hospital.
According to what I learned from the Hanyin County Public Security Bureau, after the incident occurred that evening, most of the assailants fled the scene by car. However, with the assistance of on-site civilians, the police captured one suspect involved in the assault and placed him under criminal detention. Currently, the Hanyin police have dispatched many officers to actively pursue those involved in the assault.