A scooter driver in a bright blue jacket on a food delivery run dashes across a busy intersection slick with rain, hits a turning car and is hurled along the tarmac in a video posted by Chinese police warning that couriers should slow down.
China’s home delivery boom, powered by an estimated three million couriers, most of them riding quiet electric scooters or boxy three-wheelers, has triggered a surge in road accidents, prompting warnings from police and complaints from drivers who say they feel pressure to put speed before safety.
“Accidents happen all the time at rush hour. I have a friend who was hit by a car and could not work for two months,” said a food courier in Beijing surnamed Zhang, declining to give his full name.
The number of users of China’s online food delivery market, dominated by services backed by technology giants Alibaba and Tencent, surged 41.6 per cent to 300 million in the first half of 2017, according to a report by the state-controlled China Internet Network Information Centre.
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