A year of drowning in Guangdong: responsibility pursuit is still in the process of death cycle

(Two Flower Seasons Youth, 1st Anniversary Festival)

The life of two young people, dispersed in the river during the flooding period. The accident has been a whole year, the family rushed to defend the rights, complaining simple: clear responsibilities, facing the hidden hazards, complaining the deceased. But the reality is to answer back and forth, the process is empty, the responsibilities of the parties are pushed by the layers.

On July 10, 2025, the Bridge Town around the East Village was built in Myezhou Feng Shui County, with heavy rains during the rainy season and river water rising.

The villagers self-built, year-round for villagers and students through the water bridge, was completely flooded, the bridge underwater flow and the emergency hazard. According to the public security investigation record recovered: the minor King Jingbin driver unlicensed and abandoned women's motorcycle, carrying two other traveling teenagers through the bridge, colleagues have been persuaded not to venture through, but King Jingbin with the motorcycle brake failure for the force to open the water bridge, the vehicle was then torn into the river. Three people fell into the water, one of whom the teenager succeeded to save himself on the shore, ran to call for help, King Jingbin, King Jing Hon two teenagers disappeared.

After the police, the two levels of the county town quickly mobilized several professional rescue teams, township cadres and volunteers, a total of more than two hundred people in search and rescue, three days in a row along the river search.

Just after the incident, during the two-day search and rescue period, the firefighters and family members who participated in the disposal of the scene talked about: Ten years ago, on the same river, a tragedy occurred when a couple of twin girls drowned.

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This riverway, this water bridge, has long swallowed the lives of children. This painful past warning, should have become an important reminder of risk management. But the lessons of the historical tragedy did not turn into a real governance movement, the same deadly danger is long suspended, years after years, and two teenagers in this commandment.

The mother of the deceased, i.e. our party, was constantly working in foreign affairs, in the middle of the age, lost his child, a year of day-long spiritual distress, enveloped by huge sorrow, the family was completely crushed by this inevitable tragedy.

According to the 2024-2025 academic year calendar officially issued by the Municipal Education Bureau, the official summer holidays for compulsory education schools throughout May State are July 13, 2025, and in accordance with the unified school calendar of the city, it is not permitted to arbitrarily change the holidays. That is, July 10 Japan should be a normal school teaching time, and the school may be released three days in advance.

In the first written fulfillment response issued by the people's government on June 25, 2026, the city government said: the school strictly carried out the municipal calendar, the incident period belongs to the student's home independent review stage, the school has sent home safety reminders through the parents group, has completed the safety education obligations, and the school does not assume the responsibility for accident damage compensation.

But the objective reality is that the school three days in advance let students live, notification is only sent to the parents WeChat group. For families with a large number of out-of-the-country work, parents are far off the ground, it is difficult to receive class group news the first time. Schools leave in advance, directly produced a vacuum period of guardianship: students depart from campus management, parents of out-of-the-country workers are unaware, can not take over the child's guardianship in time. The school is free from early holidays, is the key incitement to this tragedy can not be ignored.

In the two rounds of written responses before and after the construction of the Bridge Town government, only the school's unilateral statements can be credited, the core questions such as "whether the full approval process is fulfilled in advance, whether the parents of employees are effective in receiving notifications" have not been further verified, deliberately avoided the campus management level, and the main cause of the accident is simply attributed to the unlicensed driving of minors, guardians' guardianship is not in place, and the majority of the responsibility is imposed on children and families.

The water bridge, although the property belongs to the Ring East Village Commission, is a village collective self-built bridge, but it is a public road for local villagers daily, motor vehicles, pedestrians regularly pass. Every time the flood period must be flooded, belongs to the local public known and completely predictable major safety risk points. The town government's written response mentioned that there are two other bridges within a mile range of the bridge can be passed, there can be "alternative roads" not equal to this farm bridge can be allowed to run with risk, the villagers daily passage demand is objective, can not simply bypass to eliminate the real risk.

In accordance with the safety production, flood prevention and related regulations, the people's government of the township shall bear the responsibility of monitoring the risk of flooding, risk management and risk control of the district. Establishing warning signs, reduction belt, publicity education, is only a minimum of formal work. When the flood crosses the bridge surface and passes have a deadly danger, the government shall implement the physical blockade, the site guard, prohibit the passing of passenger cars, with substantial measures to block the danger.

When the accident occurred, the high-risk water bridge, no physical blockade during the flood period, no on-site deterrence, no water level risk early warning, major hidden risk long-term suspension.

Technical reference opinions are not equal to exempt from the statutory duties of security control; villagers' self-government votes, nor can the public law obligations to protect the lives of the masses.In addition to the protective fence and flood control when the flood comes, it is two things independent of each other.Even if the objective conditions can not add fixed fence, can remove the fence, the hard isolation of the flood, the bridge values of the flood, can be fully grounded implementation, but did not see substantial promotion.

After the accident occurred, family members submitted an application for performance in accordance with the law, and on June 25, 2026 received the first official written response, which gave a whole set of exemptions from liability: the town government has completed the search rescue, reassurance, hidden disease repair, insurance coordination and other local duties; the school has implemented safety education; the accident is classified as an accident, the damage result with the municipal government's performance of duty has no direct legal causal relationship, the town government, the school does not assume compensation responsibility, does not investigate related units and individual management liability.

The family disagreeed with the conclusion, submitted a written objection, re-executed the application, in exchange for the September 3, 2026 "On the re-execution of the incident of the drowning of the minors of the Ring East Village", stillined the original exemption position.

A risk point that is included in the town grid security screening system, the town government carries out supervisory inspections, but does not retain any copy of the record, all traces of performance are pushed to the village committee, which leads to the closed-circuit management of the area?

In the aftermath, the response documents disclosed, the case mentioned 146 million yuan belongs to insurance related funds, not administrative compensation. By county town two-level coordination, the same accident, Wang Geng Yong family has received 100 million yuan natural disaster insurance compensation; and the death of the case Wang Jingbin family, because there is an objection to the insurance scheme, did not submit the application, signed the certificate, the insurance funds have not been allocated to date, the family has not received a penny related compensation.

From August 2025 to today, the victims' families have been taking the legal defense path: filing an application for performance, applying for government information disclosure, preparing for administrative review, letter visit reports. But the reality is that the multiple rounds of written responses, most of which are stopped in the process of response, avoiding the core job absence issue, transferring responsibilities to the outside, forming a typical procedure vacuum. Answer one after another, but the truth of the accident has not been fully replicated, the responsibilities of the parties have not been fairly defined, the bridge's substantial risk management plan has not landed, the campus's early home management vulnerabilities have not been verified, and the post-good conflict has not been materially resolved.

We never deny that the unlicensed drivers of minors and guardians have objective real factors. Public security records show that the companions have dissuaded the adventure over the bridge, and multiple personal factors overlap in the tragedy. Multi-cause accident, can not put all the faults to one side. but, guardians responsibility, the minor's own actions, can not offset the government's own public safety regulation, school education management legal responsibilities, the legal relationship between the two is independent and cannot be replaced with each other .

It is not possible to use post-incident mass search rescue and post-incident family reassurance to offset the loss of pre-risk prevention; it is not possible to take after-incident-equipped warning signs and speed bands to cover up the fact of long-term discharge of major hidden hazards; let alone the legal responsibilities of public security, borrowing property rights, villagers' autonomy, and technical restrictions.

In the face of the lives of two teenagers who have passed away, in the face of this river that has once devoured the lives of children, the place should not fall into the “response – objection – answer again” endless cycle of programming game.

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1. jump out of the process, conduct a comprehensive and objective review investigation of the "7·10" drowning accident. Faced with two core issues: whether there is a shortage in the implementation of the safety supervision of the township government during the flooding period; the school involved in the violation of the regulations to arrange the early leave of the student home review, notify only through the WeChat group, in the face of a large number of business families, whether to cause the surveillance of air files, the corresponding management responsibilities should be defined.

When the flood crossed the bridge, the local government emergency management department did not set up a warning line, but also the main cause of this tragedy. The water bridge involved in the flooding of the East Village, brought out a true landfall flood risk management plan. Can not stop on the warning signs, slowdown belt. For the flooding of the high-risk flooding bridge, implement real risk prevention measures, as well as blocking, blocking, setting up a warning line, flooding value guard, truly eliminate major security hazards, avoid the next tragedy repeat. Can not use "alternative bridges, villagers against protective fence, bridge body should not be fitted with a fence" as a shield for the risk of flooding.

The complete publicity of the bridge networked inspection, hidden risk supervision, risk research and related archival materials retained by the city government, put the process of performance in the sunlight.Explain the nature of the insurance funds involved in the case, the insurance dispute handling path, implement the responsibility for resolving the conflict in the area, and properly help the victims' families.

Use this case as an opportunity to promote the change of the case, carry out a comprehensive hidden hazard inspection of all waterways and bridges in the jurisdiction; at the same time, verify the management mechanism of campus holidays and end-of-term residence examinations, eliminate the problems of arranging students to leave school and notify them of their absence without adequate consideration, and remedy the safety management gaps in children who are staying in rural areas and working families.

The ultimate goal of procedural justice is to substantial justice. If only documents flow, no face to face problems, no resolve to solve problems, more written answers, can not comfort broken families, and also sorry for the deceased teenager.

The dead are dead, and the living are still waiting for justice.

Disclaimer: This material comes from the official written response documents of the Government of the City of Bridge on June 25, 2026 and September 3, 2026; "Ten years ago the slave woman drowned" for family conversations of fire rescue personnel during the search and rescue, without official archive confirmation.

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