Driver killed, pedestrian 'critical'
By Ni Yinbin |
October 16, 2009, Friday
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A DRIVER was killed instantly in Yangpu District yesterday after hitting two vehicles and a pedestrian.
The pedestrian, a woman, 27, from Vietnam, suffered severe injuries and was comatose and in critical condition last night, Xinhua Hospital said.
The woman is a graduate student of nearby Tongji University, the hospital said.
Yangpu District police said the car drove to the wrong lane before the crash about 1:30pm. The sedan was heading north on Siping Road, police said.
When it passed Dalian Road, the car suddenly moved to the oncoming lane and hit a taxi and a minibus, witnesses said.
The car then swung sharply, hit the pedestrian and crashed onto a roadside steel pole, they said.
"The car was driving too fast," said a witness surnamed Xia.
Although the air bags opened, the 62-year-old driver, surnamed Lou, was killed.
Lou's wife, sitting beside him in the passenger seat, was not injured.
The pedestrian, a woman, 27, from Vietnam, suffered severe injuries and was comatose and in critical condition last night, Xinhua Hospital said.
The woman is a graduate student of nearby Tongji University, the hospital said.
Yangpu District police said the car drove to the wrong lane before the crash about 1:30pm. The sedan was heading north on Siping Road, police said.
When it passed Dalian Road, the car suddenly moved to the oncoming lane and hit a taxi and a minibus, witnesses said.
The car then swung sharply, hit the pedestrian and crashed onto a roadside steel pole, they said.
"The car was driving too fast," said a witness surnamed Xia.
Although the air bags opened, the 62-year-old driver, surnamed Lou, was killed.
Lou's wife, sitting beside him in the passenger seat, was not injured.
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