In Beijing , a scooter driver on a food delivery run dashes across a busy intersection slick with rain, hits a turning car and is hurled along the tarmac in a video posted by Chinese police warning that couriers should slow down while on the road.
China's home delivery boom, powered by an estimated three million couriers, most of them riding quiet electric scooters or boxy three-wheelers, has triggered a significant increase in road accidents, prompting warnings from police and complaints from drivers who say they feel pressure to put speed before safety.
"Accidents happen all the time at rush hour. I have a friend who was hit by a car and could not work for two months" said a food courier in Beijing. After 76 injuries and deaths involving food delivery drivers in Shanghai were recorded in the first half of 2017 alone, police called in China's largest food delivery companies in late August to warn them to improve safety standards.
(Feedback): I think that we as Americans need to take more precautions as well. Too often we hear of people dying on the road because of unsafe drivers and people who are not aware of their surroundings . Even though it may not be because of food delivery it is still causing deaths to occur at an unnatural rate.
I agree with you, the safety standards should be improved.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Wall- I think we do need to take precautions as well as China, and other countries. It is very sad that terrible things like that happen over food.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Wall- I think we do need to take precautions as well as China, and other countries. It is very sad that terrible things like that happen over food.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me feel worried that there are people out there who believe speed is more important than safety. Accidents are much more worse than getting a late delivery.
ReplyDeleteSafety laws are there for a reason and i feel as though they need to be way more enforced. A recent law passed here saying no one should pick up their phone for anything while driving but many people are not following it simply because its not enforced.
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