Beijing subway crash leaves 102 with broken bones
Beijing subway crash leaves 102 with broken bones
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Beijing subway crash leaves 102 with broken bones
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This is one dumb title
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Yeah 102 broken bones isn’t even a full person’s worth of bones.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A rush hour collision between two subway trains in Beijing has left 102 people with broken bones, Chinese state media reported.
While such accidents are not common on the Chinese capital's transport network, snowstorms reportedly led to slippery tracks.
This then caused a "signal degradation" which led the first train to brake suddenly, China Daily reported, citing Beijing transport authorities.
Images and footage posted online show commuters crowded in carriages, left in the dark due to power cuts.
In a clip posted on Chinese social media network Weibo, a woman who appears to have fainted is seen lying across several train seats.
Beijing Subway apologised for the incident, adding that the company will cover the medical bills of those injured.
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102 people with broken bones and zero deaths. Another completely plausible story coming out of China.
What is stupid is the headline, why not "500+ injured in subway crash" instead of using the number of one kind of injury. As stupid as writing "two people lost a tooth in subway crash". Still one of the seriously injured could die, but of course I wish everyone a speedy recovery, from injuries but also from the shock of the accident.
I agree with you, but also I think 100 people with broken bones is loads. That's a serious injury.
If your headline said "two people lost an arm" instead of a tooth, that would be an astounding statistic worth printing.
How is this unbelievable? It's not uncommon for rail accidents to have low fatalities.
What if it was 1000 people with broken bones and zero deaths? Would you find that unbelievable? How about a million?
The point is that there is some number of people with broken bones in a single incident that would make a reasonable person believe that somebody must have died. Maybe for you, it's a billion people or something ridiculous. For me, it's under 100.
Never in my life have I see something so believable...
...why is that unbelievable?