5 family members from Dingxi, Gansu died in a car accident while visiting relatives.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, a car accident claimed the lives of a family of five in Dingxi, Gansu Province, including two underage boys. According to reports from Chinese media, the cause of the traffic accident is still unknown.

On March 11, Mr. Xu from Zhang County, Dingxi, Gansu Province revealed that on January 29 (Lunar New Year’s Day), he and his family members were driving a small sedan to visit relatives in Wudangxiang Village, Zhang County, and on their way back in the afternoon around 1 p.m., the car rolled off a cliff on the mountain road.

At the accident scene, the bottom of the car was severely deformed and the occupants inside the car were difficult to rescue. The police confirmed on the spot that three people had died, while the other two passed away on the way to the hospital in the ambulance.

The five victims were relatives of Mr. Xu: three adults and two minors, one 16 years old (a high school student) and one 8 years old (a third-grade elementary school student).

According to the insurance company staff, the vehicle only had mandatory traffic insurance and did not have commercial insurance, so there is no third-party compensation liability, and the specifics will depend on the traffic accident responsibility determination issued by the traffic police. However, the accident liability determination document has not been issued yet, making it difficult to handle the affairs of the deceased.

As of March 12, the family still had not received the traffic accident responsibility determination document. They hope to find out the cause of the accident as soon as possible.

Mr. Xu mentioned that after the accident, the family members repeatedly went to the scene and found that the section of the road in Wudangxiang Village where the accident occurred was a newly built rural road, lacking safety guardrails at the turn (whereas other sections of the road have them) and lacking safety road signs as reminders.