When it comes to safety, zebra crossings are known as "lifelines", however, many traffic accidents are often related to not slowing down and giving way before zebra crossings. Yesterday at noon, on Xiuying Avenue in Haikou, a small truck collided with an electric car while crossing a zebra crossing without signal lights, sounding the alarm again for us.
The accident occurred at about 12:30 noon on December 16, in the video, a man was lying not far from a cargo truck, and the electric car fell aside, and 120 and the traffic police had arrived at the scene. The accident occurred at the door of the sea glass market, the reporter arrived at the scene and saw that the trailer was detaching the electric vehicle and the cargo truck in the accident, and also saw that there were personal belongings such as slippers and umbrellas of the electric car driver left behind in the motor lane, and the traffic police and 120 have rushed to the scene to take the injured to the hospital for rescue.
"I'm sitting here, bang, he passed this side from that side, (Reporter: The electric car is coming from the opposite side, take the sidewalk?) Yes, the cargo pull, people stop him to stop, and then he hit it, and the person flew there, and the person who rode the electric car didn't look at the road, but the cargo pulled did drive too fast, braked all of a sudden, and you see that the brake marks in front are very long. According to eyewitnesses, there were two lanes of cars parked in front of the zebra crossing, and only the pickup truck in the far left lane rushed straight across the sidewalk, which caused the accident.
The reporter came to a nearby hospital, and at the door of the emergency room, he saw the family of the injured, and the family said that the person was still in first aid, because he hit his head, and the doctor said that his life was in danger.
Because the traffic police took the driver of the pickup truck away to cooperate with the investigation, the reporter contacted the driver in turn, and learned about the situation at the time, "There are two cars on the right that have stopped, I will drive straight from the left road, he ran out of the gap, but I can't see him, I honked the horn to him, he suddenly twisted the accelerator, and I didn't have time to brake the car."
At present, the traffic police are still dealing with the accident. The reporter also noticed that there were no traffic lights at the scene of the incident, and it was located in a densely populated farmers' market, with more pedestrians and electric vehicles, and trucks often passed by on this road. The reporter observed for ten minutes, and the behavior of motor vehicles not yielding in front of the zebra crossing occurred from time to time, which made many pedestrians and electric car drivers crossing the street worried.
Haikou residents: It's too unsafe, there are no traffic lights on zebra roads, there are a lot of vehicles, (Reporter: How to pay attention to safety when you usually walk over?) very careful, there are often traffic jams here, (Reporter: Walking on the road will the car let you?) Some let some not let it.
Haikou residents: (Reporter: Will the car avoid you?) Very few, isn't there a traffic light in front, wait for the red light over there, and the car will pass when there are fewer cars.
The reporter reported the situation to the traffic police department, and the police said that they would combine the special rectification action of not giving way in front of the zebra crossing, and be on duty on the encrypted patrol of the road section, and educate and investigate the drivers who do not slow down in advance to observe and yield to the zebra crossing.
Source: Live Hainan