http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Foshan) en-us Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:57:00 -0700 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/child-hit-and-run-accident-leaves-china-in-state-of-shock?start=0 WARNING: Graphic Content. A toddler has died from injuries she sustained after being hit by two cargo vans in Foshan, southern China. Surveillance camera footage not only captured the accident itself, but documented something even more shocking: more than a dozen people passing her prone body without stopping to help. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:57:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/child-hit-and-run-accident-leaves-china-in-state-of-shock China, Foshan, Hit and run accident, Moral panic, Child, Lawsuit, Closed-circuit television, Top Ten Raw Videos, LinkAsia A toddler has died from injuries she sustained after being hit by two cargo vans. Surveillance camera footage not only captured the accident itself, but documented something even more shocking afterward: more than a dozen people passing her prone body without stopping to help. Sydnie Kohara interviews journalist Maureen Fan about the public outcry following this incident. ---- Two events have chinese social media in a frenzy this week… and raise all sorts of questions about how people react to someone in distress. Joining me in studio is maureen fan who reported from china for the washinton post until 2009. The first incident involved an attempted suicide in hangzhou (hahng jo). V/o a young chinese girl tried to drown herself in a city park. A foreign woman, possibly an american tourist, jumped in and rescued her. The story went viral, partly because bystanders, all chinese, did nothing to help. Here's a sample of posts on the wei bo site. This one was addressed to the rescuer. “i'm so moved, not only by your courage, but the fact that you immediately left after doing the good deed.” Another post said: “a beautiful american! And those ugly-to-the-bone bystanders.” This one said : “it's not that our morality is corrupted - it's just "on vacation". It's what communism does. But it will come back.” The second incident had a much less happy ending. V/o: a two year old in the southern chinese city of fushan was hit by a van. The driver stopped, but then drove off, running over the girl's legs again. Then, as the security camera shows, at least a dozen passersby did nothing to help the little girl. They hardly seemed to even notice her. Another truck ran over her. It too didn't stop. Finally, an elderly woman stopped and called the police. The child is in a coma. The reaction online was immense - one-and-a- half million hits to a u-tube-like site in china called yoku. And many, many responses. Here's a sample. “…this is the fault of the hit-and-run drivers, of the society as a whole, of the social system in china. It is the system that forces people to hide their conscience.” Here's another one: “…twenty people none are willing to help? It's a collective cold heart, (it demands) collective deep reflection.” And one more: “those who are wiling to help must be prepared to get sued.” Maureen, what did the driver mean by that? That he'd have to pay more if the child lived than if she died. What about the post warning that good samaritans in china can get sued. So, it's just the fear of law suits that stops people from helping? - whether there's someone drowning like in hangzhou or hit by a car like that poor girl in fushan maureen fan has reported from china for the washington post.