Death crash families seek explanation, not cash
By Xu Chi |
December 16, 2011, Friday
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FAMILIES of the 15 children who died in Monday's school bus crash in Fengxian County in the eastern city of Xuzhou will receive about 502,000 yuan (US$78,760) compensation for each child, government officials said yesterday.
But so far none of the families had accepted compensation, the Economic Observer reported on its website. Family members said they were demanding an explanation for the accident, not money.
A Fengxian County government official told reporters that compensation would include 432,000 yuan as government subsidies, 50,000 yuan for emotional distress and 20,000 yuan for handling the bodies of the children.
Zhang Bin, vice director of Fengxian County, said the bus driver, Hong Xu, should take full responsibility for the accident for not having a license to drive the bus, but the government would compensate the families as Hong was unable to.
Zhang said the compensation program began yesterday with county officials negotiating with families.
A villager surnamed Li, who was among the victims' families, told the newspaper that county officials had asked them to sign compensation contracts as soon as possible.
Fifteen pupils were killed when the bus, which was carrying at least 41 students, overturned into a ditch to avoid hitting a pedicab in Fengxian County. Eight pupils were injured in the accident and one is still in a critical condition.
The county government banned all privately-owned school buses from operating after the accident, and parents have had to make their own arrangements to send and pick up their children from school.
Pedicabs were seen lining up along the narrow and rough country roads in the morning and after school, which was posing its own traffic hazard for pupils, according to China Radio International.
Meanwhile, 16 pupils and two adults were injured after an overloaded school minibus crashed into a tree to avoid hitting a pedestrian in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, yesterday morning. All the injured were taken to a nearby hospital.
Some suffered bone fractures but none was in a critical condition, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
The minibus was designed to take 12 people, but had 18 passengers onboard when it crashed, Zeng Weihong, a local education official, told the newspaper.
The minibus was found to be unlicensed and thus operating illegally by transporting students.
But so far none of the families had accepted compensation, the Economic Observer reported on its website. Family members said they were demanding an explanation for the accident, not money.
A Fengxian County government official told reporters that compensation would include 432,000 yuan as government subsidies, 50,000 yuan for emotional distress and 20,000 yuan for handling the bodies of the children.
Zhang Bin, vice director of Fengxian County, said the bus driver, Hong Xu, should take full responsibility for the accident for not having a license to drive the bus, but the government would compensate the families as Hong was unable to.
Zhang said the compensation program began yesterday with county officials negotiating with families.
A villager surnamed Li, who was among the victims' families, told the newspaper that county officials had asked them to sign compensation contracts as soon as possible.
Fifteen pupils were killed when the bus, which was carrying at least 41 students, overturned into a ditch to avoid hitting a pedicab in Fengxian County. Eight pupils were injured in the accident and one is still in a critical condition.
The county government banned all privately-owned school buses from operating after the accident, and parents have had to make their own arrangements to send and pick up their children from school.
Pedicabs were seen lining up along the narrow and rough country roads in the morning and after school, which was posing its own traffic hazard for pupils, according to China Radio International.
Meanwhile, 16 pupils and two adults were injured after an overloaded school minibus crashed into a tree to avoid hitting a pedestrian in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, yesterday morning. All the injured were taken to a nearby hospital.
Some suffered bone fractures but none was in a critical condition, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
The minibus was designed to take 12 people, but had 18 passengers onboard when it crashed, Zeng Weihong, a local education official, told the newspaper.
The minibus was found to be unlicensed and thus operating illegally by transporting students.
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