China Reacts To Escalator Mum Tragedy By Mocking Safety Record

China Reacts To Escalator Mum Tragedy

 By Mocking Safety Record

July 30, 2015

 

 

 

After a mother was killed in a tragic escalator incident in China last week, residents will naturally be cautious.

Xiang Liujuan was seen in video footage heroically throwing her two-year-old son to safety as the escalator floor fell from beneath her, pulling her to her death.

The accident has seen an outpouring of grief for the young mum - but some people in China have taken to mocking the safety record of escalators in the country by filming themselves in all sorts of weird positions getting on and off.

One woman used her umbrella to carefully check the floor in front of her while one girl rides the escalator by balancing horizontally on the rails.

The balancing act proved popular with others too, with one shot posted on Weibo - China’s answer to Twitter - showing a group of people standing on the rails in unison as they rode upwards.

One cautious dad carefully protects his two young children as they walk over the top of the escalator - the same area where Liujuan was killed.

Her death was not an isolated incident - China’s regulations and standards are often ignored, resulting in injuries and deaths.

A nine-year-old boy was killed after he got stuck in an escalator at a Beijing department store in 2012, while a 13-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 others injured when an escalator in a Beijing train station suddenly reversed direction.