Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

This is the moment a coach carrying 35 passengers and a lorry swerve to avoid a car that had stopped on a busy motorway with the bus veering off the road.

The accident on the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway over the coastal city of Wenzhou, in East China’s Zhejiang Province, was captured by traffic cameras on the morning of 21st October.

The CCTV footage shows saloon driver Mr Sun overshooting a slip road and suddenly braking in the fast lane and changing lanes to his right without warning.

A heavy goods vehicle behind Mr Zhang swerves to avoid him, but the driver, Mr Zhang, clips the back of the saloon car.

The crowded bus driven by Mr Hu is forced into a similar manoeuvre, with the operator veering the vehicle to the right in order to avoid crashing into the back of the lorry.

But the coach is going too fast, and Mr Hu cannot stop the bus from slamming past the crash barriers and ending up in the grassy central reservation.

Wenzhou motorway police said Mr Hu and his 35 passengers were luckily unharmed as they were all wearing seat belts.

However, the accident badly damaged the coach’s doors, which mean the authorities had to evacuate the passengers from the bus’s windscreen.

Mr Hu recalled: “As soon as I saw the lorry hit the car in front, I immediately slammed my foot on the brake and swerved to the right in order to save my passengers.”

Saloon driver Mr Sun at first denied that he had stopped on the motorway, causing the crash.

He told arriving traffic officers: “I was still slowing down when I was rear-ended. I categorically did not stop. I only slowed down. I absolutely didn’t stop.”

After being shown CCTV footage of his vehicle coming to a complete halt, he added: “I did that because I overshot the [slip road].”

Wenzhou traffic police found Mr Sun fully liable for the accident.

He was fined 400 RMB (43 GBP) and docked nine points from his driving licence for the offence.

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