The video shows a toddler playing in a street. A truck runs her over, stops momentarily, then drives away. Another truck runs her over, and 18 people pass her before anyone comes to her aid.
The child in the video, which has sparked outrage and soul-searching in China, was a two-year-old girl named Wang Yue, nicknamed "little YueYue" in the Chinese press. After a week in a coma, she died Friday morning.
The hit-and-run, which transpired on Oct. 13 in the city of Foshan, captured the public's attention when Chinese television stations aired surveillance footage of it. Poignantly, after so many others ignored the bleeding girl, the woman who finally helped her was a poor migrant who had been collecting trash on the street.
Blame has flown on Chinese websites such as the popular microblogging site Weibo. Most agree the bystanders' apathy was alarming, while some have criticized the girl's parents for letting her play in the street. Others have sought to tie the news to China's move toward capitalism and away from religion and traditional morality. According to BBC News, the provincial Communist Party chief said, "We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bite the soul-searching bullet."
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