China: Car racing incident · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

On 7 of May, around 20:05, a 25 year-old young man Tan Zhuo (譚卓 see thumb nail photo) was hit and killed by a racing car when he was walking in a zebra crossing at Wen E Si road in Han Zhou. According to witnesses, the car was racing with another two cars in extremely high speed and Tan was thrown 5 meters upward before hitting the ground. The driver was an undergraduate student of a local university, Hu Bin, with rich family background. There were no tire-mark in the scene, and Tan's body was landed 20 meters away from the spot he was hit. Below is a T.V report on the incident:
70 km car speed only
Police report on the next day quoted from the driver and his friends’ side of the story and stated that the car speed was only 70 km when Tan was hit. And the police said that they were yet to confirm whether Tan was in the zebra crossing. Even the reporters were outraged by the one-sided story presented by the police and challenged the police during the press conference:
No more reports!
However, local propaganda department has issued notice to all media organization in Han Zhou demanding that there should be no more follow up report on the car racing incident. Meanwhile netizen were outraged by the attitude of Hu and his racing gang. A photo showed that they didn't show any remorse after the accident.
Uptill now there are more than 1.3 million visits to a single Tianya's post with more than 15,000 comments, below is just a selection of some:
Outraged netizens
清风匝地123　2009-05-08　09:07:53
支持人肉,简直无法无天
伤心的马甲12　2009-05-08　09:15:04
这个帖子点击快四百了，却没人回复。
我觉得这种帖子就应该顶起来，制造社会舆论压力。最好能上门户网站，各大报纸，因为不是这件事就算了，杭州这边不管是城西还是滨江，这种人很多。我身边朋友很多都碰到过，不严打，难保又要出人命。
稻草玩偶　2009-05-08　09:18:53
只要不是无照驾驶，交通事故中就不会有太大的问题，撞死人比撞伤人省下很多麻烦，甚至赔的钱更少。这帮子富家公子是败类，那些撞来撞去的司机是畜生。
他们这种情况只要不是无照驾驶连刑事责任都不用承担，所以才能笑得出来，不当回事
Driving with a license do not need to take up criminal responsibility, that's why they can laugh like this as if nothing serious has happened.
走过路过人生　2009-05-08　09:21:04
申明我不仇富，但我仇视，毁掉别人生命还如此猖狂的人。说句不好听的，这般小孩就是欠教育，对生命都如此冷漠，以后还能指望他做出什么有意义的事来？他们这行为跟故意杀人罪的社会危害性没区别了。。。
东元的KK　2009-05-08　09:22:09
还有，去年杭州滨江还发生过更惨烈的悲剧，一对小夫妻，孩子才几个月，吃过晚饭，在江边散步，一个开快车的马六把夫妻俩撞飞，肚肠都出来了，直接死亡。
wlvlb　2009-05-08　09:27:32
这就是中国了，习惯就好
空水氤氲　2009-05-08　09:46:01
这种无良祸害
强烈要求修改中国这方面的法律
这不就是 杀人吗 他们明明知道市区道路人多
还开这么快 撞死人是必然的
虽然撞死谁是偶然的
Human flesh search engine
Human flesh search engine decided to do the justice themselves and dig up all the information concerning Hu Bin, including his parent’ identity, his I.D card number, photo, mobile phone number, QQ number and even password (which is his car license number). Moreover, human flesh search engine also found out that the same car had two records in exceeding speed limit and the car's engine has been modified.
As online discussion about the incident has been harmonized (critical and emotional comments were deleted), two websites have been set up to collect information and update about this car racing incident: http://70km.org and http://70yard.com.
Candle night vigil and open letter
Tan's family, friends, fiancee, alumni, teachers and colleagues organized a candle night vigil on the next day and jointly signed an open letter to the city mayor asking for a thorough investigation on the case.  Today (May 10), there will be another commemoration gathering at the city mortuary. For those who cannot attend the vigil can sign up here.
Below are photos about the candle night vigil in May 8 (via  and 70yard):