Woman gives birth on street By Ma xiaotang (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2006-09-15 17:32 Wang Taohua gave birth on the street after a taxi
driver kicked her out of his taxi in Chongqing Municipality on September 2, the
Chongqing Evening News reported on September 3.
Taxi driver Wu Ping, suspected of leaving a
pregnant woman on the street to give birth, said a witness can prove his
innocence on September 3. [Chongqing Evening
Nerws] | Wang's husband Huang Wencheng wanted to take
another taxi, but was refused by 12 taxi drivers.
The baby's father Huang Youcheng identifies
the taxi driver who refused to carry them by video on September 3.
[Chongqing Evening News] | According to a Chinese
superstition, spilling blood in the car is equal to a year of bad luck.. Huang
said the temperature that day was 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 F). He said he
offered to pay the driver extra to take them to the hospital but the driver
refused.
People in the crowd helped comfort Wang, and a woman surnamed Chen from Hunan
Province delivered the baby.
Mother and baby are safe and healthy in
hospital on September 2. [Chongqing Evening News] | One
kind-hearted passerby called 120 (emergency services) for the couple, but it
took the ambulance two hours to arrive, even though Wang was about 200 meters
from the hospital.
The Chongqing Municipal Transportation Administration tracked the license
plate number of the taxi that Huang gave them and found Wu Ping, who denies the
accusations. The case is still under investigation.
Another pregnant woman surnamed Jiang in Chongqing said all taxi drivers she
has met while she has been pregnant are very kind and helpful and she believes
that most taxi drivers are good, there are always exceptions.
A taxi driver surnamed He said a taxi driver that would leave a pregnant
woman to give birth on the street gives a bad name to all taxi drivers and
should have his taxi license revoked.
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