China: Motorbike Runs Down a Cyclist, Who Starts Convulsing in the Street [NSFL]

A motorbike runs down a cyclist on a shop-lined street in China.

The dashcam trailing behind doesn’t catch the hit itself, just the aftermath: someone already on the pavement, not moving.

Nobody in the original post can even say if they pulled through.

Video

The clip opens as pure filler: a security camera watching a parking courtyard on a quiet afternoon, a few kids weaving across it on bicycles, 2 to a bike in a couple of spots, a scooter idling by the gate.

Then it cuts to a dashcam rolling down a shop-lined street, and within seconds the car passes someone already down in the road, face-first and not moving, a moped tipped over beside them and a flatbed truck parked at the curb. A bystander’s phone clip gets in closer on the same spot: the person still face-down, a guy in a jacket just standing near them, while a cyclist pedals straight past without stopping. This is apparently where the twitching kicks in, according to the post. Nobody in frame looks like they’re in much of a hurry.

What the Thread Said

Most of the thread got stuck on the twitching itself: agonal breathing, the reflexive gasping that shows up right as the heart gives out, or just a seizure from the head hitting pavement. One commenter shut the agonal-breathing theory down flat, saying that’s not what it actually looks like. A few others skipped the medical debate entirely and argued about who was even riding what, convinced the motorbike belonged to the woman and the bicycle to the man, not the setup everyone had assumed.

China’s Traffic Death Toll, the Highest in the World

The bike-versus-scooter crash in the video happens on roads that already carry the world’s deadliest traffic numbers.

• 261,367 traffic deaths in China in 2013, the most of 181 countries surveyed by WHO.
• China alone made up roughly a fifth of the world’s 1.25 million traffic deaths that year.
• 17.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, down from 20.7 in 2010, still above the regional average.
• 8,639 people died riding e-bikes in 2019, about one death every hour on average.
• E-bike crashes make up roughly 70% of all non-motor-vehicle deaths and injuries, with illegal battery mods blamed for about 18,000 fires a year.

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