Chinese Pedestrians Ignore Injured Toddler

Although the driver stopped when the girl was under the van, he eventually continued driving and ran away. The little girl was left laying in the street.

Minutes later, another small truck drove over Wang without slowing down.

In the very first 10 minutes after the accidents, none of the passers-by stopped. The pedestrians glanced and walked away, according to The New York Times. A mother even held her son tighter, and walked away fast. 

Finally, an unidentified woman quickly moved the girl to the side of the street and went to find help.

"I didn't think of anything (else) at the time," she said. "I just wanted to save the girl."

According to the Mail Online, both drivers were arrested.

“I was on the phone when it happened, when I realized I had knocked her down, I thought I’d go down and see her,” the first van driver claimed. “Then I saw that she was already bleeding, I decided to just step on the gas pedal and escape.”

Wang’s father even told a CNN reporter that before the van driver was arrested, he called the toddler’s father and tried to offer the family money, but refused to turn himself in.

The little girl is still in critical condition, and her mother begs and cries for her recovery.

"Yueyue, give Mom another chance to love you, OK?" she said. “I know my girl. She's strong and she'll wake up again."

According to the New York Times, video reports of the accident have been viewed more than a half million times in China, and shocked a lot of the population. But it doesn't change the fact that people walked, drove and bicycled past.

Photo by Philip Jagenstedt.