0
2
A four-year-old boy wandering along a highway on Sunday was found by police officers in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in central China's Hunan Province.
The police said the boy was walking along the central reservation, close to the fast lane where many cars passed him at high speed. A police officer took the boy to a safe area immediately and inquired about where he lived, but the boy was too young to answer the officer’s questions.
After about an hour, the police officer found the boy's mother in a village nearby. The mother said as soon as she couldn't find her son, she started looking for him, but didn't expect the boy to turn up on the highway.
Bernhard Schwartlander, the World Health Organization's representative in China, wrote in the China Daily: “Much more needs to be done to spur the adoption of measures to raise road safety, especially with respect to children.” He added that more than 10,000 children die on Chinese roads every year, around one third of them pedestrians.