Changde, Hunan Province: Pickup trucks grabbing yellow lights can’t cause accidents before rear-end collision.

       CCTV News:Two days ago, a thrilling scene was staged at an intersection in Changde City, Hunan Province. A pickup truck failed to grab the yellow light when passing through the intersection. As a result, it rear-ended a car in front of it. The illegally loaded steel pipe on the pickup truck flew out of the roof and hit the front car and scattered on the road. Fortunately, the accident did not cause any injuries.

       After the police on duty at the intersection found the accident, they immediately went forward to check and found that the pickup truck was obviously modified. The police investigation learned that the pickup truck driver Longmou was engaged in building decoration work, and privately welded steel frames at the head and tail of the pickup truck to facilitate the loading of goods. On the same day, Longmou drove the steel pipe to the construction site. When driving to the intersection of the incident, he saw that the traffic lights were about to turn red and wanted to grab the yellow light, but the black car in front slowed down and stopped. So Longmou quickly stepped on the brakes, but he still chased the front car. The huge inertia and the weak binding caused the steel pipe carried on the car to fly out and hit the front car. 

       In the end, the police decided that the pickup truck driver Longmou was fully responsible for the accident, and fined 500 yuan for the illegal act of changing the shape of the motor vehicle without authorization and registering the relevant technical data, and ordered him to immediately restore the vehicle to its original condition.