At 7 o’clock on the evening of May 2, at the intersection of Xinglong Road and Xinglong No.1 Road, two buses that were standing by stood together after a loud noise. The accident happened to a foreign bus, which rushed down Xinglong Road, butted against the rear of the bus and injured two cars in the opposite lane. In the accident, several passengers on the bus were injured, and the accident vehicle blocked the road, causing traffic congestion.
At 7: 30 pm on the 2nd, the reporter rushed to the intersection of the incident. A white bus entered the rear of a 609 bus overhead, and the contact position between the two cars was seriously deformed. The front of the 609 bus is still on a 319 bus, and its body has also changed shape. At the scene, the ground was covered with glass fragments. The reporter saw in two buses that the inside was a mess, similar to the ground outside. In the last row of bus No.609, a seat has been pushed up, which shows the great impact force.
Three big cars occupied more than half of the road in the accident, and the traffic police were directing traffic loudly and cleaning up the scene at the same time. The two buses that were hit were able to start. Under the command of the traffic police, the two cars drove forward for a certain distance. When the bus No.609 was separated from the bus, the windshield of the bus crashed to the ground with a crash. This bus has a Lu V license plate, and the right side of the cab has shrunk in.
"At that time, two buses stopped at the station, and the bus quickly rushed down the slope and one end was topped." Mr. Wang, a nearby citizen, said that the driver of the bus consciously turned the steering wheel to the left and the right side of the front of the bus hit the bus, which saved the driver’s own life. The two buses then collided. At that time, there were many passengers in both buses, and they suffered a lot of impact. The bus swerved to the left. At least two cars were hit in the opposite lane, and the rear door of one Volkswagen was dented. Fortunately, the owner was not hurt.
The reporter found one of the car owners. He said that he was greatly frightened. Fortunately, he was not injured. "The speed of this bus is not slow. It came directly to my car, and my eyes were dark." At the scene, the reporter also found the driver of the bus that caused the accident. He didn’t want to talk about the accident.
On two buses, several injured people are waiting for treatment. Master Xu, the bus driver of No.609 bus, sat in the seat near the door, his face full of pain, and his head, chest and knees were injured. He said that at the time of the incident, the bus was standing close to the bus No.319 in front. At that time, I felt that the speed of the car behind me quickly hit and hit him on the steering wheel. Not long after, the 120 ambulance arrived, and a staff member tried to carry him to the ambulance, but when he tried hard, Master Xu couldn’t stand the pain. The emergency personnel immediately took a stretcher and carried him to the ambulance. A 24-year-old boy in the car was squeezed by the front seat, and his injury was lighter than that of Master Xu.
The 120 ambulance sent the injured to the hospital several times. One of the injured told the reporter that there were at least 7 injured people. "There are 4 people on one bus and 3 people on the other." A 120 emergency worker told the reporter that he went to the scene and sent three injured people to a nearby hospital. The driver of bus No.609 was the most seriously injured.
In the interview, the reporter noticed that the traffic between Xinglong Road and Xinglong Road was almost stagnant, and many car owners honked their horns anxiously, which further strained the atmosphere at the scene. "This has been blocked for an hour. The road is already narrow. Just move the car." The citizen said. At this time, a trailer arrived, ready to move the accident vehicle. As the injured were sent to the hospital and the accident vehicles moved away, the traffic situation improved slightly.
At 8: 06 pm on the 2nd, Weibo, the official of the municipal traffic police detachment, responded to the car accident. "According to the 122 Command Center, the accident was caused by the brake failure of a foreign bus, which hit two buses and two cars. Three people were slightly injured in the accident, and the Sifang traffic police have rushed to the scene for disposal. The cause of the accident is under further investigation."
During the interview, the reporter remembered that he had interviewed a car accident caused by similar brake failure in the same place. At 4: 40 pm on June 22, 2011, at the intersection of Xinglong Road and Xinglong No.1 Road, a van failed to brake, scraped a Honda car and then hit a Volkswagen Skoda car, and then stopped at the rear of the bus waiting for the signal light.
The reporter found through online search that similar brake failures have occurred frequently. At 1 pm on April 1, 2011, near the intersection of Fuzhou South Road and Jiangxi Road, a large truck failed to brake and hit five cars. At 4: 30 pm on March 11th, 2011, a yellow engineering rescue vehicle on Longde Road failed to brake and hit two buses.
The old driver, Mr. Zhang, told the reporter that the roads in Qingdao are hilly, and many downhill positions have intersections and signal lights, so it is very dangerous for downhill brakes to fail. "Why not set a speed bump in the downhill lane? Let the driver develop the habit of slowing down downhill instead of accelerating. Even if the brakes fail, the speed will not cause great disaster. " Text/Reporter Han Xiaowei Figure/Reporter Sun Chuanhao
(Source: Peninsula Network-peninsula metropolis daily) [Editor: Song Tao]