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Ever since this tape was broadcast on the Chinese news last week, the story of two-year-old Yueyue—and the many grown-ups who failed her—has appalled Chinese readers and sparked a debate about the ethical health of contemporary life here. The driver, in a call to reporters, didn’t help matters, saying: “If she is dead, I may pay only about twenty-thousand yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan.”
this apparently occurred in China, which supposedly has no legal protections for good samaritans and allows for victims to sue those that help them...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/chinas-bystander-effect (from 2011 but explains the bystander effect)