S8: Ep8: The Gansu School Bus Crash
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S8: Ep8: The Gansu School Bus Crash
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In the early hours of November 16, 2011, a group of preschool children climbed into a vehicle meant to carry them to the promise of education, a daily journey filled with laughter, snacks, sleepy eyes, and worn-down backpacks.
But that morning, in a remote corner of Gansu province, western China, 64 students were crammed into a nine-seater minibus, a vehicle designed for day trips, not for delivering the future of a village.
The roads were narrow. The bus was overloaded. And by 9 a.m., 18 children and two adults were dead, their lives crushed in a head-on collision with a coal truck.
The Gansu school bus crash wasn’t just an accident. It was a tragedy born of inequality, poverty, and desperation, a symptom of systemic neglect in China’s rural education system. And when the story broke, it didn’t just spark mourning... it sparked outrage across a nation.