CCTV News:Paying attention to a special traffic accident is special because in many traffic accidents involving pedestrians, non-pedestrians usually bear the primary or secondary responsibility. However, in a traffic accident in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, pedestrians became "perpetrators" and were sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment and suspended for one year by the First People’s Court of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. So, what kind of traffic accident is this? Why was this pedestrian sentenced for this?
Pedestrians ran a red light and killed motorcycle passengers.
The lady sitting in the dock of the court is the "pedestrian" side of this traffic accident, Hu. The People’s Procuratorate of the First Urban District of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province accused that at 8 o’clock on the evening of May 27, 2017, when the defendant Hu walked to the first section of the Torch Development Zone in Zhongshan City, he did not cross the road according to the traffic lights on the sidewalk, and collided with a moving two-wheeled motorcycle, causing the victim Zhang who was riding the motorcycle to be injured and died after being sent to hospital for rescue. After forensic identification, Zhang died of severe craniocerebral injury caused by blunt violence on the head and face. After the incident, the defendant Hu was injured and was sent to hospital for treatment.
Whether the defendant "ran a red light" is hotly debated by both the prosecution and the defense.
The defendant Hu argued in court that the traffic lights at both ends of the crosswalk at the incident section were not automatic, but manually controlled. Before crossing the road, pedestrians need to touch the buttons on the roadside and wait until the green signal lights up before passing. The defendant Hu argued in court that she just forgot to touch the button in a hurry on the night of the incident.
What is the impact of monitoring and revealing two details on the trial of the case?
In addition, the monitoring screen also reflects two details: before the accident, at the moment when the motorcycle approached the defendant, the defendant had an action of speeding forward; Careful observation of the picture shows that when the defendant crossed the road, there was always a light spot in her hand, which was her mobile phone screen.
During the trial, the defendant’s defense lawyer said that when crossing the road, the defendant didn’t talk on the phone while walking, but just crossed the road with his mobile phone.
In the monitoring screen, the mobile phone screen in Hu’s hand was always on when crossing the road, and it can be clearly seen that she kept her head down when crossing the road. She did not observe the road conditions and traffic lights in advance, but walked straight ahead with her mobile phone.
The traffic police determined that pedestrians were mainly responsible for the accident.
After the accident, the police of the traffic police brigade of the local public security organ immediately went to the scene of the incident to conduct an investigation, and made a "Certificate of Road Traffic Accident", which determined that the pedestrian Hu was mainly responsible for the accident. According to the investigation of the traffic police brigade of the Torch Development Branch of Zhongshan Public Security Bureau, Guangdong Province, Miao, a motorcycle driver, also committed a number of traffic violations when the accident occurred. It can be seen from the monitoring collected by the police that after the accident, Miao, a motorcycle driver who fell to the ground, stood up and walked to the victim Zhang, wearing a pair of roller skates on his feet. In addition, when Zou was driving a motorcycle, he and passenger Zhang did not wear safety helmets as required. However, the local traffic police department believes that these behaviors of Miao are just general illegal behaviors during driving, and they have no direct causal relationship with the accident.
Chen Dewen, policeman of traffic police brigade of Torch Development Branch of Zhongshan Public Security Bureau: "The accident section is controlled by a traffic light. When pedestrians cross the road, she doesn’t look at the traffic lights and traffic lights at all. When the motorcycle encounters this situation, the brakes don’t rush to the left, but they have already hit the direction, causing pedestrians and motorcycle drivers and passengers to fall to the ground. Pedestrians running red lights are the cause of the accident. "