Recently, a heart-wrenching traffic accident has attracted widespread attention. The accident occurred at a busy intersection in a city, and a moving muck truck clashed violently with a battery car, resulting in a woman in the battery car being run over and killing on the spot.
According to eyewitness accounts, it was rush hour, and the two cars were fighting for the initiative at the intersection for the green light, and neither driver gave way to the other. At the moment when the two cars collided violently, the woman in the battery car was thrown out of the car and was run over by the muck truck.
Sadly, this is not an isolated case. In the traffic of some big cities in the mainland, similar "light grabbing" games are not uncommon, especially the conflicts between muck trucks and battery cars are repeated.
First of all, from the perspective of vehicle attributes, muck trucks, as heavy-duty commercial vehicles, are large and slow to travel, while battery trucks are relatively flexible and maneuverable.
More importantly, behind this contradiction lies the difference in social status and discourse. Muck trucks often represent the interests of large enterprises such as certain construction companies, while battery trucks mostly belong to ordinary people.
At the same time, the mainland's existing traffic management system also has many shortcomings. For example, the rules on the allocation of the right of way and the setting of traffic lights are too rough to take into account the characteristics of different models.
In addition, law enforcement is also obviously insufficient, and many uncivilized driving behaviors have not been effectively curbed. This has invisibly boosted the self-consciousness of all parties and exacerbated the escalation of contradictions.
Undoubtedly, this heinous traffic accident is not as simple as a simple car accident. What is reflected behind it is a microcosm of the growing social class gap and conflicts of interest on the mainland.
To some extent, the two parties involved in this accident are the epitome of the two extremes in today's society.
What is even more painful is that this antagonism is not an occasional incident, but a conspicuous problem that has existed in mainland society for a long time. In the existing pattern of interests, it is often difficult to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of vulnerable groups, and they often fall victim to powerful groups.
"This accident has once again exposed the serious inequities that exist in our society. A netizen said angrily, "Obviously they are ordinary road users, why can the muck truck be reckless, but the life of the battery car is worthless?"
It can be said that this heinous traffic tragedy is not only an isolated car accident, but also a microcosm of the social class differentiation and imbalance of interests in the mainland. It warns us that in order to completely curb the occurrence of such incidents, it is far from enough to rely solely on reforming the traffic management system, and it is necessary to fundamentally solve the problem of social fairness and justice.