Comments on: Bicyclists Strewn Everywhere: One Car Kills Five [UPDATE]

By: » Speeding Cop Runs Into Seven People, May Have Been Drunk Beijing Cream

» Speeding Cop Runs Into Seven People, May Have Been Drunk Beijing Cream — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:34:07 +0000

[...] The news team at Guangdong Satellite TV requested the closed-circuit surveillance camera footage, but unfortunately that’s not something one can simply put in a FOIA request for. The footage exists though — we’ll post it when it’s made public. Youku video for those in China after the jump. UPDATE, 11:32 am: Someone mentioned vertigo in the comments, which reminded us of this from June: a driver killed five cyclists when he lost control of his car. [...]

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:52:00 +0000

That said, it might be a good idea.

By: Adiran

Adiran — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:51:44 +0000

I don’t even want to think about how many they’d go through if they started ghost bikes.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:10:59 +0000

I’ve seen plenty of peasants driving BMW’s and Mercedes. Plenty of uncouth, uncultured, unrefined Chinese from the countryside with money.

By: Sad

Sad — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:24:30 +0000

And the really pathetic thing is it wasn’t even some ignorant peasant but an obviously rich person with a brand-new automobile (who probably paid a bribe to avoid the driving test and get a license through the back door).