A Guangdong lawyer said that the two drivers who ran over two-year-old Foshan migrant Yueyue should be 100 per cent responsible for the death of the girl. Huang Jinsong told Legal Weekly that the girl's parents should also be partly responsible because Yueyue wandered into the busy street while under their care, but because the two drivers fled the scene, the drivers became wholly responsible.

The parents have already secured the services of a lawyer, Luo Dexu, to file a lawsuit against the two drivers. Among the angles that Mr Luo will look into are if they were using a mobile phone while driving and if they saw Yueyue before they ran over her.

Wang Chicang, Yueyue's father, disclosed that the first driver called him on the phone to ask for his bank account, but offered no apology for the death of the toddler. Mr Wang rejected the offer of financial settlement and advised the driver - who was quoted in previous reports that it would cost him less if the child he ran over died compared to if she were still alive - to turn himself over to the law.

Yueyue died on Friday after one week of being comatose and brain dead. Her death, however, appears to have sparked a soul-searching journey among many Chinese because of the low regard of the drivers for human life and the indifference of pedestrians and cyclists to strangers in need.

However, many Chinese drivers apparently have not learned the lesson from Yueyue's death. A day before Yueyue died, another Chinese child was mercilessly crushed by a truck driver in Sichuan Province.

The victim was identified as Xiong Maoke, a five-year-old student who was walking home with schoolmates when the accident happened at about 11 a.m. An eyewitness, a woman named Zhang, was walking behind the children when she saw the dump truck headed right at the group of school children. The truck initially hit Xiong lightly, so the boy even stood up to get his umbrella after his first hit.

"The truck backed away a bit and then went forward, rolling the child under a front wheel," The Epoch Times quoted Ms. Zhang.

When she shouted at the driver to stop, the truck stopped, the driver went down, cursed Ms Zhang and walked away. The driver, Ao Yang, showed the same little disregard for human life as did the first driver who ran over Yueue.

"I will pay whatever the family asks me to pay," The Epoch Times quoted Mr. Ao.

The death of Maoko likewise sparked rage among Chinese netizens.

"Why are these so many inhuman people in the world? The sad tale of little Yueyue had not yet ended when another child is run over and killed!" a blogger wrote on qq.com. One commenter replied, "This is the result of a society that worships money and power."

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