Cover the girl lying on the roadside." Rescuer at the scene of the Nantong primary school bus accident: "I took off my clothes.
At an elevated intersection, a dump truck crashed into a vehicle carrying choir students.
At 12:55 on May 10, a garbage truck collided with a bus at the intersection of Panxiang Road and Hongjiang Road in Chongchuan District, Nantong City. In the surveillance camera, the bus was driving on the road. A garbage truck drove out from the right side and hit the front of the bus. The two vehicles slid to the left together. It is understood that this is a student activity vehicle organized by the school. The bus where the accident occurred carried 45 people, including 39 students, 3 teachers, 2 parents, and 1 driver. The students' school was Tonghe Primary School in Chongchuan District, Nantong City. On the day of the incident, the primary school organized students to participate in an art festival performance.
According to the latest news, the accident caused one death, one serious injury, and six minor or minor injuries. The cause of the accident has been initially identified. Before the incident, both the bus and the garbage truck were in the straight lane. When the bus passed through the intersection from north to south, the straight signal light did not light up due to a malfunction. The driver did not carefully observe the intersection situation and passed at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. At this time, the garbage truck passed from west to east. Going straight at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, he hit the right front of the bus. The garbage truck involved was suspected of driving in a restricted area in violation of regulations, and the driver of the garbage truck has been controlled.
"There was a problem with the traffic lights at this intersection a few days ago"... In Nantong, some locals asked about the cause of the traffic accident; some parents stayed up all night after seeing the footage of the accident, asking about their children's treatment; there were also citizens Go and donate blood... The safety of the children has touched the hearts of the whole city.
On the morning of May 11, the traffic lights at the intersection where the incident occurred were normal. Photo by Wang Qian
"I took off my clothes and covered the girl lying on the roadside."
After much hesitation, 41-year-old Yang Jun decided to get out of the car and participate in on-site rescue.
Shirtless, with a bit of a beer belly, and wearing black pants, he was walking on the street. He looked a little embarrassed in the photo. In just ten minutes, he got into the bus, picked up three children and a teacher, and took them to a safe roadside lawn. The last photo was widely circulated on social platforms - he took off his T-shirt and covered the face of the girl lying on the roadside.
He did not see the crash. In his impression, the scene was chaotic and noisy, and for a time he thought there was "a show" on the roadside. He was originally driving on the right-turn lane when he heard noises. After turning around, he discovered thick smoke rising in the distance. "A car accident has formed," and the noises came from children crying in panic.
"When I went there, most of the children had been moved out by the teachers," Yang Jun recalled. "I went to help, and the firemen evacuated after arriving at the scene." He didn't feel that he was so righteous. "Actually, I was very afraid of the car exploding or something. After all, I also have elderly children." But when he saw that they were children, "I still had to bite the bullet and go." Starting from here, several passers-by joined the rescue team.
"That piece of black cloth is my top. I found that the girl on the roadside had an injury on her head. I covered it because I was afraid of getting into the ashes on the roadside." Yang Jun felt helpless. "Many people asked me if the child was gone. I I'm a clothes seller. If you ask me whether the fabric is okay or whether the person is still alive, I really don't know. It depends on the doctor's judgment. But the Internet says that eight or nine children are gone. These are very interesting. Maybe it’s a rumor.”
He still remembered that he ran into the bus compartment to save people, and the last person to come out of the bus was an adult male. "I looked under all the seats and there was only one tall man left," Yang Jun judged. He might be a teacher. After the firefighting and other rescue forces arrived at the scene and the cordon was set up, Yang Jun left the scene. When Yang Jun left, the driver of the garbage truck was still trapped in the car and the door could not be opened. As for whether the bus driver was injured, he didn't see clearly. "I just caught a glimpse of him covering his body in the driver's seat... He stayed in the car until the end and helped provide rescue information."
The day after the incident, Yang Jun couldn't help but blush when he mentioned the situation at the car accident scene. His mood fluctuated a bit, and he repeatedly emphasized: "I don't want to get involved, and I don't want to be famous for this matter. I just want to run my clothing business. I just did what a citizen and a father should do out of instinct."
At 10:38 a.m. on May 11, reporters at the accident scene found that traffic at the intersection had resumed and all traffic lights at the intersection were indicating normal. Except for the relevant law enforcement vehicles that stayed near the intersection, the tow trucks and other rescue vehicles were no longer there.
According to a resident who lives nearby, the area near the intersection where the accident happened is where many new and improved properties gather, and many of them are still under construction. "I can often see heavy trucks filled with decoration materials passing under this elevated highway where the accident happened. The traffic here has always been complicated," she described.
According to the relevant regulations of the Nantong City Traffic Police from April 2022, the intersection of Panxiang Road and Hongjiang Road where the accident occurred is a section where diesel trucks with National III and below emission standards are prohibited from parking 24 hours a day, and those who need to pass through these sections are Large trucks need to apply for a pass.
Nantong First People's Hospital is the main hospital that treats injured people in car accidents. On the day of the incident, due to a sudden increase in treatment pressure, it urgently dispatched additional manpower and temporarily transferred a nurse who had just retreated to the second line back to the emergency room.
The reporter then went to the new hospital of Nantong First People's Hospital. At the entrance of the operating room of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of the Second Hospital, a parent was waiting. Her child underwent a two-hour head operation last night. The intensive care unit on this floor treated two children injured in car accidents, and the other child was in fifth grade.
"I don't know," the parent said. "Right now, I'm just concerned about whether my child is getting better." As of noon on May 11, she had not seen the child after the operation.
At noon on May 11, family members of injured students were waiting in the critical area of the second inpatient department of Nantong First People's Hospital. Photo by Yang Shuyuan
A security guard working on the first floor of the emergency department of the hospital told reporters that injured children are currently being treated in many places in the hospital. “We have a critically ill child who is being rescued in the intensive care unit. He was brought by a private car yesterday and he was quite seriously injured. "
A mother posted multiple commemorative videos on her social media account, saying that her daughter died in a car accident. The video shows that the daughter, who is in fifth grade, is versatile and has learned piano, dance, painting, and loves all kinds of sports. At the end of April, the student's growth footprint and various honors were announced on the official account of Nantong Tonghe Primary School.
After the accident, the afternoon show was canceled. Within half a day, the slightly injured child returned home. Parents in the community opposite Tonghe Primary School lit pagoda incense and spontaneously prayed for the children.
The shadow also spreads in the hearts of every parent. According to the descriptions of many parents of classmates, in some school choir parent groups, many parents have chosen to have their children withdraw from the choir immediately.
At 4 pm on the 11th, when Tonghe Primary School was out of school, several parents hurried over and waited at the school gate. The father of a second-grade child was carrying a large schoolbag in his hand. This was a schoolbag that a neighbor asked him to take home for his child, who had already been taken away by his mother. "After what happened yesterday, many people who didn't pick up their children themselves came to pick them up," the father said.
A parent of a third-grade student came to pick up his child wearing work clothes. In her daughter's class, two children were on the bus yesterday. Fortunately, they suffered only minor injuries. But she was also keenly aware of some changes. "In the past, it didn't matter if I was a few minutes late when I picked up my children from work. The teacher would place the children with the guard. After what happened yesterday, the teacher took special care of me and waited for me to arrive." If she calls and sends the child out, things will definitely be different in extraordinary times.”
On the afternoon of May 11, a parent from Nantong Tonghe Primary School was picking up his child. Photo by Yang Shuyuan
What was the cause of this traffic accident? The relevant person in charge of the traffic police detachment of the Nantong Municipal Public Security Bureau said that the road section where the incident occurred is the intersection of north-south Panxiang Road and east-west Hongjiang Road in Chongchuan District. Preliminary investigation showed that the bus and the garbage truck were both in the straight lane before the incident. When the bus passed the intersection from north to south, the straight signal light did not light up due to a malfunction. The driver did not carefully observe the intersection situation and passed at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. At this time, the garbage truck The car was traveling straight from west to east at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour and hit the right front of the bus. The garbage truck involved was suspected of driving in a restricted area in violation of regulations, and the driver of the garbage truck has been controlled.
A resident living nearby said that the signal light at the intersection had been out of order for several days. "I saw it was broken when I came home from get off work, and something happened today."
On the afternoon of the second day of the accident, the local taxi carrying the reporter to the scene of the accident suddenly braked suddenly at an intersection to avoid pedestrians who were trying to catch a red light. He sighed and said: "Such a tragedy just happened yesterday, why are we still like this?" Cross the road?"
It rained heavily all day in Nantong on the 11th. The entire sky was foggy and visibility was very poor. Someone wrote on social media, "These are the tears shed by God for the children, and the tears of regret left by millions of parents for their children."
According to a report from the Traffic Detachment of the Nantong Municipal Public Security Bureau, the driver responsible for the accident has been controlled by the police and the accident investigation is ongoing.
A sixth-grade student at Tonghe Primary School told Shangguan News that the head teacher provided psychological counseling to the students during the school day on May 11. “The head teacher said some of her feelings after knowing the news, and also asked us if any of our friends had experienced it. If there is a car accident, try not to disturb them and let them rest.”
