Many cities in China are exploring stricter measures to protect drivers and harsher punishment for ill-behaved passengers. These actions were taken because a woman in Chongqing attacked a bus driver. The video found in the bus camera showed the woman, who had missed her stop and required the driver to stop immediately but was refused, began to hit the bus driver with her mobile phone. The driver fought back and lost control of his bus which ran over the double solid line, knocked against another car in its normal driving and finally broke the guard bar of the bridge and fell into the Yangtze River. The accident killed 15 people, leaving no one in the bus alive, including the woman and the driver.
Nanjing in Jiangsu Province promises to install doors that separate the driver from the passengers on some 8,000 buses by 2019, People's Daily reported. Wuhan in Hubei Province will replace 6,100 older buses with new models equipped with protective doors by 2025, Wuhan Evening News reported. Some places have already started to take stricter legal measures against passengers who misbehave. A local court in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, sentenced three individuals in three separate cases to three years in prison with reprieve. All three had physically clashed with bus drivers, causing traffic accidents or injuries to passengers, Xinhua reported. Media reports have found at least 24 incidents of passengers grabbing the steering wheel of a bus in 2018.
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