Posted on 05/05/2022 11:48:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
While trying to cross a road to meet his girlfriend, a man in Taiwan was killed after he was hit by four cars in succession.
This unfortunate tragedy happened on Monday (May 2) at 3am in Taipei, reported English newspaper Taiwan News.
The man, surnamed Chuang, was crossing the road under the pouring rain but the traffic light had turned red before he could make it across, according to the Taiwanese news outlet.
The 41-year-old then tried to dash across the road but he was struck by a taxi driven by a man surnamed Ting, who immediately pulled over to the side of the street to help the pedestrian.
Speaking to Taiwanese police after the accident, 57-year-old Ting said that he was able to see that the traffic light had turned green, but he was unable to spot Chuang in time due to the rain.
A second car, a white-coloured vehicle, then ran over Chuang while he was still lying on the road but the driver didn't stop, said the Taiwanese police.
A third vehicle, driven by a man surnamed Tsai also ran over Chuang but he pulled over to help.
Ting then tried to warn an oncoming truck of Chuang's presence on the road, but this taxi driver had to jump out of the way to avoid being knocked over himself, Taiwan News reported.
By the time paramedics arrived at the scene, they found that Chuang had suffered serious head and leg injuries. They performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him.
Chuang was then conveyed to the National Taiwan University Hospital, where he died at 4.39am, according to Taiwanese news outlet NowNews.
The deceased was on his way to meet his girlfriend, and was wearing dark-coloured clothing at that time, Chinese Television System reported.
Taiwanese police said that the rain and low lighting had led to poor visibility on the road, which meant that the vehicles were unable to avoid Chuang in time.
All four drivers were arrested and passed the breathalyser tests, said the police.
The drivers are being investigated for negligent homicide, the police added.
The police knew that Chuang Ting wrong had occurred.
should be named Ping, or Pong.
He didn’t wake up expecting to die that day, either.
RIP, fellow human.
He’s consistent.
Frogger.
Easy to see why it happened from the pictures.
Yikes. RIP.
He goes out at night, in heavy rain, wearing dark clothing, and he gets killed.
I bet he’ll never make that mistake again.
you chose foolishly grasshopper....
Sad.
At least his relatives know why the Chuang kin crossed the road.
Now they just need longer green lights.
One time I was driving through heavy rain at night on a busy four lane road lined with strip malls and fast food — typical suburban “strip”. I was on an inner lane, and we were all going about 35. I saw a tiny flash of white between the beats of the wipers, and slammed on the breaks. There, one foot beyond the hood of my F250 were the biggest “blackface” eyes and teeth I’ve ever seen. No contact made. The flash of white that clued me in were his white socks — every other stitch of clothing on him was jet black.
Please be serious.
The question is did he tie one on before this action?
Was he a type A personality?
a job for slippery pete and schlomo..
Don't buddhists believe in rebirth and carry all the mistakes of their past life forward? He probably will end up road hamburger again then.
Same thing happened to a guy I knew. He had been drinking and stumbled off the sidewalk onto the road, got barely clipped by one car which made him stumble further into the road, got hit hard by a second car which put him down and then a third car ran over his head.
Some Ting happened to some people.
The worst place I’ve ever been for people darting across traffic was in Turkey. City, countryside, it didn’t matter. It was like a constant game of Dodge ‘Ems. I actually saw a man get hit and thrown high into the air when he was struck by a car on the freeway between Ankara and the airport. Modern highway, six lanes, high speed and limited access. As we passed close to where the fellow landed the fellow driving the car I was in just shrugged and kept driving. Unreal.
Sum ting wong there, need more streetlights.
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