Body of 2-year-old child sent flying when hit by BMW, whose driver, unfortunately, could not break in time

Warning: Disturbing Content - This lamentable accident was caused by child negligence of his parents.

A dashcam clip of this harrowing scene in Taichung was uploaded onto a Taiwanese social network this morning, which shows a 2-year-old boy rushing out onto the open road, shortly before getting slammed in the face by a BMW, sending the child flying. The boy's crying mother immediately ran to him and picked him up. An ambulance took the boy to a nearby hospital, where he was put in the intensive care unit for further observation.

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According to the authorities, the accident occurred at around 2 pm on the 1st of September, when Mr Xu Nan, 53, who was driving a BMW with a female friend of his along Taiyuan Road to Yongxing Street, when he struck a 2-year-old boy, surnamed Wang, who scurried out onto Green Park Road between two cars. The boy was flung onto the ground and skidded a few metres before colliding with the wheel of another car, passing out. Their parents quickly ran to him and called 199 for the ambulance and police.

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A fire-fighting unit reported to the scene and rushed the boy to the hospital attached with China Medical University for emergency treatment. The boy's head, hands, knees and many other areas were scrapped and bruised. Luckily, he is also awake and can breathe without assistance, and is currently in a stable condition, but is nonetheless kept in the intensive care unit.

Further investigation shows that the road concerned is a one-way street with no zebra crossing, and the speed limit was 50 km/h. By virtue of the dashcam video, it is currently determined that there was no obvious violation in driving conduct since the accident was out of the driver's control. However, the details of the accident have yet to be made public.

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Li Jianmin, the traffic squad leader of the Second Branch of Zhongshi City, said that the Road Traffic Safety Rules stipulate, under Article 139, that "Parents or guardians of children under the age of 14 must not allow them to cross car lanes or roads with frequent traffic on their own", and breaking this law could result in a fine of 300 yuan.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Douglas C-54 Skymaster airplane carrying two people crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday and burst into flames, authorities said. No survivors have been found.

The plane took off in the morning from Fairbanks International Airport. It crashed about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from there and “slid into a steep hill on the bank of the river where it caught fire,” according to Alaska State Troopers.

Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska regional office, said it remained unclear what happened in the time between the takeoff and the crash but the tower operator “saw a large plume of smoke.”

Michaela Matherne was flying from the village of Galena to Fairbanks to catch a flight to New Orleans when her small plane was diverted to verify the coordinates of the crash site.

“When we were in the air there was speculation that it was a cabin that caught fire, maybe a fish camp,” she told The Associated Press via Facebook Messenger.

“We actually didn’t know what we were looking at until after we landed a few minutes later,” she said. “We were shocked and saddened to hear that.”

The C-54 is a military version of the Douglas DC-4, which was a World War II-era airplane. The website www.airlines.net said standard passenger seating for a DC-4 was 44 during its heyday, but most have been converted to freighters.

The Federal Aviation Administration described the plane as a Douglas C-54. Troopers identified it as a DC-4.

The NTSB was sending investigators to the site, Johnson said.

Further information such as the flight's purpose and destination was not immediately available.

A fire burns after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Alaska State Troopers via AP)

A twin-engine plane crashed outside Fairbanks Tuesday. (AP Graphic)

A fire burns after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Michaela Matherne via AP)

A fire burns after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Michaela Matherne via AP)