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Yahoo!7 October 19, 2011, 7:09 am
Arrests, excuses over China s hit-run toddler
The little Chinese girl, hit by two vans and then left for dead on the side of the road, is in a coma in hospital as outrage grows over her treatment, and passersby who ignored her plead their case.
Yue Yue, 2, suffered terrible injuries when she was struck by the cars in a narrow market street.
The China Daily reports that she can take weak breaths with the help of a respirator and has some feeling in her arms, but that her life is still in danger - and there are fears she may have sustained brain damage.
Video of the moment she was hit by a van, which stopped momentarily, then another vehicle and then left on the road by people who walked passed, sparked outrage in China and the world.
The two drivers have been arrested but passersby have claimed it was "too dark" for them to see her in the street.
There are local media reports that one of the drivers was using his mobile phone.
The Shanghaiist says the driver called Yue Yue's father and offered him money just before he was arrested.
"I was on the phone when it happened, I didn't mean it. When I realised I had knocked her down, I thought I'd go down to see how she was," he was reported as saying.
"Then when I saw that she was already bleeding, I decided to just step on the gas pedal and escape seeing that nobody was around me."
A shopkeeper who appears to walk out of his plumbing shop, look at the girl and then leave says he has been harassed by people.
"[I swear to the God] if I had seen the girl, I would die in your face," the Shanghai Daily News reported him as saying.
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A motorcyclist who rode away from the tragedy said it was too dim and he believed crying sounds were coming from a nearby shop.
A rubbish collector who helped Yue Yue's was given a $1,570 reward by local authorities.
Yueyue's father Wang told Chinese television: "Yueyue is so lovely. If I quarrelled with her mother and if her mother cried, she would tell us not to cry, she always tried to amuse us.
"I just hope my child will wake up and call me Dad again."
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