As the warm spring gradually thickens, the climate is warm, and the flowers are blooming, many enthusiasts have gone out to fly kites, immersed in the warm sunshine of spring, and released their souls. Whether it's the green grass in the mountains, the spacious squares of the city, or the open areas of the parks, you can see people flying kites everywhere.
However, some people ignore safety when enjoying the fun of kite flying, which is a very dangerous behavior. In spring, when the kite is blown high by the wind, the kite string is easy to break due to the strong wind, and then the kite gets out of control. What's more serious is that if the kite accidentally falls on the wire, or the kite wire collides with the wire, it is very easy to cause safety accidents such as electric shock, short circuit and even fire.
You can believe that a kite can completely change the fate of a family.
During a family outdoor event in Dehui City, Jilin Province, the family held colorful kites and had smiles on their faces, sharing the joy brought by the spring breeze between the four of them. Unexpectedly, misfortune struck inadvertently, and a silent disaster made high-voltage power lines a deadly threat.
The children were enjoying the fun of flying a kite, but they didn't even think about it, but accidentally let the kite get tangled around the high-voltage power line nearby. The parents who tried to retrieve the kite used a long pole to reach the kite and accidentally touched a high-voltage power line, causing them to suffer an electric shock and were immediately taken to the hospital's intensive care unit for treatment. In this tragic incident, the father had to amputate both limbs, while the mother lost a pair of arms and a leg.
There are many different types of kites on the market today, but the luminous kites with metal wires are extremely popular, and these kites are extremely conductive. At the same time, the rope length of many large kites is usually in the range of 500 meters to 3000 meters, if accidentally hung on the power line, even in the dry weather environment, it can easily cause a short circuit, which not only poses a major safety hazard to the kite flyers and residents near the power line, but also leads to the failure of the power grid, affecting the daily electricity demand of the majority of users.
Moreover, the kite string is very thin, and it looks like a sharp knife under the action of tension.
There was a traffic accident. Mr. Cong from Dalian City, Liaoning Province, was driving his vehicle through the Jinshitan National Tourism Resort when he started the vehicle at a nearby roundabout and was only 20 meters away, when the vehicle suddenly made a loud tearing sound, which made him immediately stop the car on the side of the road and get out of the car to check what was going on.
Mr. Cong discovered that a kite string was firmly embedded in the bumper of his car like a steel wire, causing severe damage to the front of the vehicle. "The thread is like a steel wire, and when you pull it, your hands are red." Mr. Cong recalled to reporters. After confirming the condition of the vehicle, he tried to follow the clues to find the owner of the kite, but within a radius of about 50 meters, he searched the road and the surrounding branches, and found no other end of the line. Sanitation crews then arrived at the scene to clean up the kite line, which was very long, 100 meters away, and during the cleanup, the vehicles behind almost collided.
During the entire incident, the owner of the kite never showed up, and Mr. Cong had to contact the insurance company to deal with the damage to the vehicle. "The kite string had cut off the inner layer, and it was no longer possible to repair it by touching up the paint alone, and the entire bumper had to be replaced. Mr. Cong explained that based on the estimated cost of replacing the rear bumper of the car in the past, the cost of repairing the front bumper this time may be as high as more than 20,000 yuan.
In addition to the dangers of electric shock, which affects traffic safety, there are also people who have been "cut throats" by kite strings.
On April 7, 2022, in Jiangsu, Ms. Zhao suddenly felt pain in her neck when she returned home from cycling. After stopping and checking, it was found that the neck was scratched by a kite string, causing a tear of about 10 centimeters. Immediately, she rushed to the hospital for wound treatment and reported the case to the police. The police checked the surrounding surveillance footage and found that the kite had drifted from a park not far away. After some questioning and investigation, the police finally locked down the owner of the kite, a citizen named Zhu. Zhu explained that he was taking his grandson to enjoy flying a kite in the park that day, but the kite was suddenly blown away by a strong wind and has been missing since then.
In March 2020, near Changyang Park in Fangshan District, Beijing, Mr. Xie was in an accident riding a motorcycle. A kite string suddenly slipped and wrapped tightly around his neck along the edge of his helmet, causing the helmet's buckle and neck sleeve to be severed in an instant. As a result of the accident, Mr. Xie suffered a deep wound in his neck.
Back in January 2017, in Xi'an, a man riding an electric scooter was tragically caught in a flying accident when a kite string cut across his face, causing him to cut his forehead, right ear and chin.
Earlier, in February 2016, a tragedy occurred in Jiangsu Province. A man was riding a motorcycle when he accidentally collided with a kite string. The kite string got tangled around the rear wheel of the motorcycle, forcing the motorcycle to the road, causing the man to be thrown out of the vehicle and die instantly.