Lime

This entry is not pleasant. If you are at all sensitive, read on. 

Almost every time I go out, I meet or pass a road traffic accident. I have seen things I don't want to think about. Not just dead bodies but decapitated bodies. When you've seen a bloody headless body on one side of the road and a head filled plastic helmet on the other, a certain cynicism sets in.

99% of all the RTA's I see involve motor cycles. Usually motor cycles meet trucks. But not always. Pushbike meets bus. I have the photos. Chinese media are not shy about publishing gory pictures.

So much do the motorcyclists feature in accidents that the local government have erected a few displays of wrecked bikes. (They also have displays of wrecked cars - usually the locally produced death traps which General Motors are so proud of.)

But this takes the proverbial biscuit of horror stories.

Some unidentified Liuzhou motorcyclist had an unplanned meeting with a truck which tipped over. The motorcyclist was buried under the load the truck was carrying. Lime. And I don't mean the fruit.

By the time the emergency services arrived and dug him out, the motorcylist was not only dead but melted.

Grim.

tags: liuzhou  rta  motorcycle  lime  gm  general motors  

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