Kuai Technology reported on December 4 that another female motorcycle internet celebrity passed away due to a car accident at the age of 19. While the incident was regrettable, it also caused netizens to once again heatedly discuss the meaning of the ban on motorcycles. According

Kuai Technology reported on December 4 that another female motorcycle internet celebrity died in a car accident at the age of only 19. While the incident was regrettable, it also caused netizens to once again heatedly discuss the meaning of the ban on motorcycles.

According to domestic media reports, on the afternoon of December 2, a car accident occurred on the Hainan Island Tourist Highway in Haitang District, Sanya City, Hainan Province. A young female motorcycle rider died. On the 3rd, a friend of the female rider told reporters that she was born in 2004 and will celebrate her 20th birthday in a week.

Later, some netizens discovered that the above-mentioned rider was an Internet celebrity rider on the Douyin platform, and his online platform nickname was "dj Wan Xiaoju". The reporter noticed that the account has a total of 14,000 fans on the Douyin platform and has now become a private account.

On the day of the incident, the relatives of "dj Wan Xiaoju" rushed to Sanya by plane and told him that "dj Wan Xiaoju" had passed away on the evening of the 2nd.

Before this, many motorcycle Internet celebrities such as "An'an", "Xiaojiao Wife", "Xiaoyu Loves Fish", "Zhuang Muqing", "Ma Ruosong" and others have passed away. The youngest is 16 years old, and the oldest is only 23. age.

Behind the frequent accidents of Internet celebrity riders is the rapid growth of the motorcycle market. According to statistics from an e-commerce platform, the transaction volume of motorcycles on the platform will exceed 10 billion yuan in 2022. At the same time, data from the Ministry of Public Security show that there will be 11.3 million newly registered motorcycles nationwide in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 12%. The number of newly registered motorcycles nationwide has maintained rapid growth in the past three years.

This has also made motorcycles the traffic password of various platforms. On the short video platform Douyin, the topic "motorcycle" has been played 80.98 billion times; on Xiaohongshu, which is dominated by female users, there are as many as 1.07 million notes about motorcycles. At the same time, many motorcycle enthusiasts have become Internet celebrities in this craze, and there are also Internet celebrities in other fields who rely on motorcycles to attract attention and increase their followers.

Wang Congwei, a lawyer at Beijing Jingshi Law Firm, said that drivers seeking excitement is an important reason for frequent motorcycle accidents. According to statistics, speeding has always ranked first among the causes of death in motorcycle accidents.

According to Zheng Xiang, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University Law School, motorcycle traffic accidents are mainly caused by three factors: people, vehicles and roads. Judging from the analysis of the recent causes of various accidents caused by Internet celebrities driving motorcycles, the main factor is human factors.

Motorcycle Internet celebrities often lack traffic safety awareness and pay more attention to factors that attract traffic during driving, such as wearing strange clothes that are not suitable for driving, speeding to show off skills, ignoring road signals to make the driving route beautiful, etc., putting themselves and others in a dangerous situation. in an unsafe state.

Experts interviewed generally believe that platforms for publishing motorcycle works must hold down responsibilities, provide positive guidance, popularize necessary safe driving knowledge, and avoid inciting risky behaviors and unsafe driving concepts when promoting heavy motorcycles.

At the same time, platforms and bloggers are also obliged to convey correct safety concepts to minors. While promoting attractive images of riding motorcycles at speed, they should also emphasize safe driving knowledge and the ability to respond to dangerous situations.

In addition, currently for some traffic violations, such as driving without a license, speeding, etc., the penalties faced by offenders such as fines and driver's license revocation are relatively light, and the cost of violating the law is low, which will lead to some people still taking chances. Relevant people suggested that the government should strengthen supervision and law enforcement, improve systems and regulations in the field of motorcycle driving and traffic safety, increase the cost of illegal activities, and effectively maintain public safety.