A large truck in Guangxi rushed to primary school students, causing 3 deaths and 2 injuries. The accident vehicle was suspected of being overloaded.
Cctv newsOn March 26, the reporter learned from the traffic police detachment of Guigang Public Security Bureau that on March 24, a large truck collided with students crossing the road after school in Guangren Village, Mule Town, Guiping City, causing one girl to die on the spot, two girls died after being rescued, and two others were injured. After the accident, governments at all levels in Guigang and Guiping, public security traffic police and other departments carried out follow-up investigation and handling work, and it has been determined that the truck involved was suspected of being overloaded.
The truck was suspected of being overloaded.
According to the investigation by the Traffic Police Brigade of Guiping Public Security Bureau, the driver Liang was from Luchuan County, Guangxi. At 11 o’clock on the morning of March 23, Liang drove a heavy van of Gui K brand to carry sugar from a sugar factory in Longan, Baise to Guangzhou, stopping for three times, and stopping for dinner in Shizui Town, Guiping City before the incident. After the accident, the traffic police department checked the vehicle situation and found that the approved load mass of the truck was 40 tons, while the sugar loaded on the truck was 58 tons. At present, the public security organs have criminally detained Liang, and the traffic police department has also sent the accident vehicle to the judicial technical appraisal department for various performance tests.
The traffic facilities in the accident section are perfect.
After on-the-spot investigation by the accident handling police, the road section is 304 provincial highway, and the whole line is equipped with large-scale car speed limit signs. There is a crosswalk (zebra crossing) at the accident site, with clear markings, a speed bump 230 meters away from the zebra crossing, and a warning sign to avoid children and students 77 meters away.
Carry out investigation and rectification to prevent problems before they happen
After the accident, Huang Weijing, vice chairman of the government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, gave instructions to attach great importance to it and quickly organize forces to deal with it. On March 25th, the joint meeting on road traffic safety in Guigang issued a notice to the offices of the joint meeting on road traffic safety in counties, cities and districts, as well as to all member units, to deploy and carry out the major investigation and rectification of traffic safety hidden dangers around the campus.
The traffic police department of Guigang City quickly investigated and rectified the hidden dangers around the campus for all primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in its jurisdiction, focusing on the establishment and integrity of signs and markings such as traffic warning signs, zebra crossings and speed limit signs along the national and provincial roads around the campus. Understand the daily work style of the school when organizing students to go to school and cross the road, and urge the school to learn the lessons of the 3.24 traffic accident in Guiping and attach importance to the safety guidance of students to go to school and cross the road.
Enter the passenger and freight enterprises in the jurisdiction, urge the person in charge of the enterprise to strengthen management, investigate the hidden performance hazards of trucks and vehicles and traffic violations, organize freight drivers to carry out traffic safety publicity and education activities, improve drivers’ awareness of civilized and safe driving, and prevent traffic accidents from the source. Intensify efforts to rectify road traffic violations of key vehicles such as trucks, buses and dangerous goods transport vehicles, and strictly investigate serious traffic violations such as overloading, overcrowding, illegal modification, illegal overloading and transportation, license-related, drunk driving, and fatigue driving.
It is reported that the traffic police department of Guigang City will also convene relevant departments to hold a road traffic safety contact meeting in the near future to study the traffic safety management around the campus and explore the establishment of a long-term management mechanism for traffic safety around the campus. (CCTV reporter Fu Qien Ryson Ho)