http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20141206000012&cid=1103 Long scarves pose health risks in China 2014-12-06
[image] (girl torso in hospital bed) A ten-year-old girl was paralyzed when her long scarf got stuck in the wheel of an electric moped. (Internet photo) Several cases of people being seriously injured after their long scarves got stuck in the wheels of their electric mopeds have been reported across China, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily. A ten-year-old girl was paralyzed after falling off an electric moped because her long scarf was entangled in the vehicle's wheel in Handan City, Hebei province. She could not move and had difficulty breathing after the fall. Around 15 hours later, she was hospitalized and later transferred to larger hospital for surgery. There, she was told she had broke her spine and damaged her muscles. Despite the surgeries, the girl has to rely on machine to breath now. A woman in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, went into a coma after her scarf got struck in the wheel of her electric moped, and on Nov. 8, a 7-year-old girl was pulled off of a moped her mother was driving for a similar reason. The girl was lucky though and only suffered from abrasions to her head. A doctor in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei province said such accidents occur every year as scarves can easily get stuck to various places such as the elevator and bus doors as well as moped wheels. Police have warned people against the dangers of long scarves. [© wantchinatimes.com] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3DEVLN%2Bbrucedp2%26days%3D0%26sort%3Ddate {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Police-cn-warn-of-dangers-long-scarves-e-mopeds-don-t-mix-tp4672978.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
