On May 15, Great Wall Motor's brand Great Wall Cannon and rooftop tent manufacturer Akinoji responded to the incident that "the owner of the Great Wall Cannon was stuck in the neck of the electric tent on the roof".
The owner of the car was stuck in the neck and died
On May 13, some netizens reported that the owner of a Great Wall Cannon car was trapped in an electric roof tent and died, questioning the existence of hidden dangers in the vehicle. On May 15, the topic of "The owner of the Great Wall gun was stuck in the electric tent on the roof of the car and died" appeared on the hot search.
The Great Wall Cannon is the main model of the Great Wall pickup. Judging from the April sales data released by Great Wall Pickup, Great Wall Cannon models accounted for nearly eighty percent of Great Wall pickup sales, mainly for outdoor off-road scenarios.
Image source: The company's official website
Previously, Great Wall Pickup and outdoor equipment brand Wild Land jointly launched a new species of pickup camping "Shanhaiju", adding a fully automatic lifting hard-top vehicle tent to the Shanhai Cannon model. The roof tent in the car of this model adopts a double X cross arm support design, which can achieve an internal space of 1.5m high and 5 square meters on the upper and lower floors through electric lifting.
Pickup camping new species "Shanhaiju" Image source: Great Wall Cannon WeChat public account
According to media reports, the accident party responded that the owner of the car stood under the rooftop tent at the time of the incident, and poked his head up to the second floor of the tent, and there was a steel pipe in the rooftop tent of Shanhaiju, and the steel pipe moved back and forth in the process of the tent lifting, causing the owner's head to be stuck by the steel pipe and the sunroof, and the accident party questioned that there may be hidden dangers in the connection between the tent and the car sunroof.
The two parties involved responded
In response to the above accident, on May 15, the official Weibo of Great Wall Cannon issued a statement saying that on May 11, 2024, Chengdu users had an accident during the use of Shanhaiju rooftop tents, and the company is currently paying close attention to the progress of the investigation of this incident, and will fully assist the Qiunodi brand, actively cooperate with the investigation of relevant departments, and provide all necessary support to the family. Regarding the progress of this accident, please refer to the announcement of Qiuyedi (Xiamen) Outdoor Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.
Image source: Weibo
Qiuyedi (Xiamen) Outdoor Equipment Technology Co., Ltd., the developer of the Great Wall Pao Shanhaiju Camping Tent, issued a statement on the official Weibo saying that on May 11, 2024, a user in Chengdu suffered an accidental casualty while using the Shanhaiju tent.
Image source: Weibo
As the developer of the Shanhaiju camping tent, the Akinoji brand organized a team to rush to the scene on the day of the accident and cooperate with all parties in the investigation. According to the preliminary understanding of various information, the accident occurred when the user entered the tent during the ascent of the electric tent.
Tianyancha shows that Qiuyedi (Xiamen) Outdoor Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. was established in April 2002, the legal representative is Zhou Nanqing, with a registered capital of 6 million US dollars, and its business scope includes the manufacture of industrial textile products, outdoor goods sales, daily necessities sales, etc., which are held by Zhengwu Electronics Co., Ltd. and Zhou Nanqing respectively 51% and 49%.
According to the official website of Akinochi, rooftop tents are one of the company's main sales products, and the types of rooftop tents announced on the official website of Akinochi have reached 15. The sales staff of Qiunodi told reporters that the brand rooftop tent is installed separately after the purchase of the car, and Shanhaiju is a rooftop tent developed for the Great Wall cannon series, and it needs to be operated in accordance with the instructions when using.
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