It was a very ordinary van, the kind that many people on the street used to transport goods, silver-gray in color.
Wei Mian stuck his head in and looked inside, but the window was covered with reflective film and he couldn't see anything.
She walked over there casually, carrying the supermarket bag, pretending to pass in front of the car.
The driver was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was smoking with the window open. Through the gap in the window, one could see that the interior was somewhat different from previous vans, as if it had been modified.
The original back seats were all removed, leaving only the driver and co-pilot positions.
Through the empty space between the two seats, Wei Mian saw several heads shaking in the car, accompanied by the sounds of laughter and playfulness.
There was more than one child in the car!
Wei Mian wrote down the license plate, then leaned against a nearby bus stop and silently observed the car. After a while, she saw a woman in her early thirties leading a little boy running towards her from a distance.
The little boy was about six or seven years old. He was carrying a small blue schoolbag on his back, which bounced up and down when he ran.
When the smoking man saw the woman coming, a hint of dissatisfaction flashed across his eyes, but he quickly got out of the car and opened the door, unable to help muttering.
"I told you to wait here at 8:40, no later than 8:50. Look at what time it is now. We're going to be late after waiting for you for so long!"
The woman was also a little embarrassed and kept apologizing to the man. When she saw the car door open, she hurriedly picked up the little boy and put him in.
While the car door was open, Wei Mian turned his head to look inside.
I saw more than a dozen small chairs placed crookedly on the removed seats of the van, and more than a dozen children, about the same age as the boy, were sitting or standing on them. They were all carrying schoolbags.
The children who were playing around saw the door suddenly open, and they hurried back to their seats laughing and greeted the little boy enthusiastically.
The little boy responded one by one, then he walked through the crowded gap to the end and sat down on the empty seat there.
Seeing this, the woman handed over the kettle in her hand, gave a few more instructions, and apologized to the man again.
"Alright, alright, be more careful next time!"
The man had a cigarette in his mouth. After seeing the people leave, he closed the car door while cursing, then got into the driver's seat and started the car.
Wei Mian couldn't help but frown when she saw this. Even though she didn't know much about it, she knew that this kind of van was used to transport goods. First of all, it was wrong for the other party to transport people, not to mention that it was seriously overcrowded.
Thinking of the huge black evil spirit she had just seen, Wei Mian knew that something was bound to happen soon, so she simply took out her cell phone and called the police.
"Hello, is this the traffic police? I want to report a van that's illegally overloaded. There are thirteen people on board. The license plate is Qing A***. They're currently on Chaoyang Street, heading towards Yueliang Avenue. It's a serious safety hazard."
"Okay, we'll send someone over to intercept it."
Wei Mian hung up the phone only after receiving a positive answer from the other party. With the intervention of the traffic police, the car would definitely be stopped due to overloading and unauthorized modification, so there should be no chance of a traffic accident.
Otherwise, more than ten children are the lifeblood of more than ten families. If something unexpected really happens, how will the parents survive?
Old Zhang was driving quickly to the kindergarten. According to his usual speed, he should have arrived by now. If the parent hadn't dawdled and left late today, he wouldn't have been rushing so hard now.
Lao Zhang is the school bus driver for the preschool class of Little Sun Kindergarten. It is called a school bus just to make it sound nice, but it is actually just a van.
It only costs an extra hundred yuan a month to take this bus to school, so many parents who find it inconvenient to send their children to school are rushing to sign up.
Lao Zhang is the brother-in-law of the kindergarten principal. He is usually idle. This job depends entirely on his brother's face. The principal is a little worried, so he has clear regulations on the school bus time. Students must arrive at the kindergarten before nine o'clock.
According to the previous time and route, if we leave here at 8:40 or 8:45, we will have enough time to arrive at the kindergarten before 9:00, but the parent just now dragged on until 8:53, leaving him only 7 minutes for the journey.
Mr. Zhang was very upset when he thought that he might not be able to keep his salary this month, and he stepped on the accelerator much harder.
The children in the car were unaware of anything and were still laughing and playing. The noise reached the front seat, making Lao Zhang even more irritated. He felt his head throbbing.
Just as he was about to speed up again to turn the curve ahead, he suddenly saw several men in fluorescent green uniforms waving signs not far ahead to stop passing vehicles.
There was a blue and white car parked next to it, with the words "Traffic Police" written on the car body in very conspicuous places.
When Lao Zhang saw the fluorescent green clothes, his head, which had just been a little agitated, was immediately like being poured with a basin of cold water, and his body braked faster than his brain.
The car slowed down quickly.
The traffic police also saw the silver-gray van mentioned in the alarm call and immediately stopped the car.
They just saw that the car was almost taking off at a high speed, and it only slowed down after seeing them!
The van slowly stopped, and Lao Zhang in the car was sweating profusely. He never thought that he would be caught by the traffic police after only a few minutes' journey.
He knew better than anyone what the punishment would be for using a truck that was used to transport goods to transport people, let alone overcrowding.
"Hello, please get out of the car and show your driver's license!"
Lao Zhang rolled down the window and smiled a smile that was uglier than crying. "Hello, comrade, I..."
Before he could finish his words, the traffic police had already seen what was happening inside through the window.
A bunch of kids were squeezed together in the back row, and now they were looking at him in unison.
There was an old traffic policeman in the family who was about the same age as me and he immediately got angry.
"You are playing with the child's life!"
"Come down!"
The old traffic policeman shouted sternly.
Lao Zhang became even more panicked, with only one thought in his mind: it's over.
The news was reported in Qingping local news that evening, and the driver Lao Zhang and the person in charge of his Little Sun Kindergarten were punished and warned in conjunction with other relevant departments, and were ordered to suspend business and rectify the situation.
At the same time, we commend the anonymous whistleblower and call on the general public to report similar situations in a timely manner to avoid tragedies.
Wei Mian smiled faintly, hiding his achievements and fame.
If he had not been stopped by the traffic police, Lao Zhang would have driven too fast and lost control when making a sharp turn, driving into the opposite lane and colliding with an oncoming vehicle, resulting in ten deaths and four injuries.
One of the four injured children will be pierced in the eyes by flying glass and become blind forever.
Two of them had to undergo amputation to save their lives due to severe injuries, and one had spinal nerve damage and could never stand up again.
Their families were heartbroken because of their children's injuries and deaths. More than a dozen families were broken apart by this car accident.