“Crash Time” of Sanitation Workers in Lanzhou: From 4am to 6pm

On July 18, when a Dongfeng truck reversed its turn at the Donggang overpass in Lanzhou City, he suddenly got out of control and rushed onto the sidewalk, hitting a female sanitation worker who was working with him and the concrete guardrail into a bridge that was three or four meters deep. After the incident, the sanitation worker Zhu Lihua died.

This was a month or more when the third sanitation worker in the locality suffered a car accident while working. Of these three accidents, two occurred in the early morning. Many sanitation workers called for: Do not let us "go alone" on the streets of still cities.

The black file on the road

Lanzhou Donggang Overpass is located in the city's "East Gate." A nearly ten-metre length of concrete guardrail was hit on a three or four-meter-deep road surface. A pair of cloth shoes, a straw hat, and a pool of blood were lying on the scene of the accident. Wu Xiaolan, a workmate of Zhu Lihua who was killed in the tribulation, said: “I ran over to see her (Zhu Lihua) kneeling on the ground with blood on her face. The doctor said she was no longer able to work.” This was the scene of a car accident on July 18.

The same scene occurred at 5.30 a.m. on June 9. At the 50 meters east of the Lanzhou Museum on Qingyang Road, the sanitation worker Zhang Jianxia was severely injured by a passing vehicle. On June 24, Zhang Jianxia died from a serious injury.

Another car accident also happened in the early morning.

There is no unified city-level sanitation department in Lanzhou City. The sanitation bureau, which is a branch-level organization, is located in various urban areas. There is no uniform standard for records in all districts, but some incomplete figures still describe the pain of the past:

In the Chengguan District Environmental Sanitation Bureau, in 2007, 9 sanitation workers were injured when they were cleaning the road. One of them was disabled and 10 were slightly injured. In 2008, 14 sanitation workers were injured. In 2009, there were 20 Sanitation workers were injured and one of them was killed. As of June 2010, 12 sanitation workers were injured and one of them was seriously injured.

In the Qilihe District Environmental Sanitation Bureau, during the four years from 2007 to 2010, 39 people in the sanitation workers were involved in car accidents. Among them, 2 were dead, 2 were disabled (one is vegetative), and the remaining 35 were slightly injured.

In the Anning District Environmental Sanitation Bureau, from 2007 to 2010, three sanitation workers were killed in a car accident during the first line operation, and another 20 sanitation workers were injured in the accident. One of them is still a vegetative state. In the first half of 2010, 5 sanitation workers in Anning District were hit by passing vehicles during the operation, 2 were seriously injured and 3 were slightly injured.

In the Xigu District Environmental Sanitation Bureau, from 2008 to 2010, 6 sanitation workers were involved in a traffic accident, of which 3 were killed and 3 were seriously injured.

Behind the above-mentioned list of deaths, a phenomenon is even more shocking: Most of the sanitation workers' car accidents occurred between 4 and 6 o'clock before dawn. Many sanitation workers called these two hours "times of accidents."

"Three no matter" time

Lanzhou is a typical valley-type transportation hub city. It is connected to the South and the North and the East-West intersection. Many heavy-duty trucks need to cross here. However, because of the special terrain, traditionally there have been day-to-day restrictions on more than one ton of freight cars. Many transit vehicles and construction vehicles must wait until midnight to allow transit.

This has led to the spectacle: Late at night, when the Lanzhou people go to sleep, a heavy-duty freight car sprints on the main road.

Most of the time, Lanzhou City has strict control over dangerous goods passing through the border. For example, the traffic and transportation management department has set up mobile inspection posts on several major roads and established a random inspection system at any time. At the same time, the traffic police department is strictly monitoring the transit vehicles.

In addition to the above two departments, the Urban Integrated Law Enforcement Bureau (Chengdu), which is part of the same system as the sanitation department, is also considered to be the department that can control the transit of heavy-duty trucks and cargo wagons. The city administration can protect the urban environment from loading. To regulate or stop vehicles that have spilled debris.

Some people say that if the transport, traffic control and urban management departments can enforce the law on the time of the release of freight cars, many vehicles will not be driven drastically. But unfortunately, in the "time of a car accident" that made sanitation workers fearful, these departments are all resting.

At 5 a.m. on November 23, 2009, Liu Jianmin drove a truck loaded with apples from Luanchuan County to Xining, Qinghai Province. The trucks passed through the east side of the east gate of the Party School of the Beibinhe Road, Lanzhou City. On the right side, Dong Hailing, a female sanitation worker who is currently working on site, was knocked down. Dong Hailing died after being rescued by the hospital. After the accident, Liu Jianmin fled the scene. Three days later, the investigators of the Traffic Police Brigade of Lanzhou City obtained clues through public rewards and arrested Liu Jianmin in Jingchuan County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province.

This is a very typical case of a vicious death caused by the innocent deaths of sanitation workers. After the incident should have caused the relevant departments to attach importance to the protection of sanitation workers at night, but unfortunately, afterwards, everyone's eyes are focused on the rewards to catch the escapee Above, no serious reflection.

Some people think that sanitation workers wear reflective "yellow vests" during their operations to avoid dangerous situations. However, before the dark dawn, the glimmer of the "light-emitting vest" did not help.

In the early morning of June 18, 2008, when three environmental sanitation workers in Xigu District cleaned the road near the Shuanggou Bridge, a construction vehicle pulling the dregs suddenly drove quickly. Two workers died on the spot and one seriously injured. Zhang Gongtai, secretary of the Xigu District Environmental Protection Bureau Party Branch, recalled the scene at that time: The brakes on the vehicle involved in the accident were long. Although the sanitation workers wore yellow vests with reflective features, they still failed to avoid accidents.

How to ensure the safety of sanitation workers

Every time, when the sanitation workers were killed, all traffic police departments came forward to conduct publicity in the media. On the one hand, it emphasizes repeatedly on the driver that driving safety should be paid attention to late at night and before dawn. It must be steady and slow; on the other hand, for sanitation workers, they should be self-protected to avoid car accidents.

However, many times such propaganda did not produce the desired results. For the driver, driving at night and in dawn, there are few people on the road, and the throttle at the foot will increase unconsciously. Sanitation workers are somewhat helpless about “teaching”. One sanitation worker said that paying attention to safety is a human instinct and we will not joke about our own lives. Many sanitation workers hope that the traffic control and other departments should arrange for night and early morning law enforcement inspections. “Even if there is a small amount of public security on the road, police lights and police cars are on the roadside, it can also serve as an effective warning to drive the driver.”

The reporter learned that in order to provide substantive protection for sanitation workers working at night and in the early morning, in some cases where the night shift traffic police force is insufficient, the armed police officers and soldiers are sent to reinforce the duty, and the time is set at 23 o'clock to 9 o'clock the next day.

It was also suggested that the sanitation workers should be provided with additional equipment, the scope of mechanized cleaning should be increased, and the environmental protection workers at night should be equipped with the necessary protective and reminding tools, and the rated limit should reduce casualties.

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