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The 60-year-old farmer, Wang Sheng Lan, woke up in the dark and was going to pick blueberries. She, together with several women in the village, squeezed into the white car that the foreman was driving. The 6-person nuclear vehicle was used in early morning to pick up female blueberry pickers in various villages, and eventually added to the total of 22 drivers. There was a small rain and their destination was the Blueberry Barracks in East Port, Liaoning. On 3 May, at approximately 0557 hours, when a car was travelling westwards along the 201-country road, moving at high speed through the fast bend of the road near the lime kiln village of the town of Huangtucan in East port, it flipped and hit a tree on the side of the road. According to a road traffic certificate issued on 28 May by the Traffic Management Brigade of the East Port Public Security Department, eight people were killed and 14 injured in the accident. After the accident, one of the 39-year-olds often escaped from the vehicle and was later arrested. According to an accident certificate provided by the family of the female worker, the 21 passengers in the vehicle were women, the youngest being under 36 years of age and the oldest being 70 years of age, most of them 50-60 years of age. They all come from the neighbouring city of Liaoning Dalian, the village of the saddlehills in the town of Liaoning Dalian, and the town of Sintien, the autonomous district of the Mandarin people in the city of the saddlehills. It's the blueberry picking season. Before the incident, they worked as part-time and mobile workers, wherever they worked. Get on that deadly overload, maybe they have no choice. The car accident took place and the tree was damaged and damaged. This is a photo of Chen Rei, a journalist.

Morning car accident.

On 3 May, Ho Jianquin, over 60 years of age, was informed that his daughter-in-law had been injured. He went to East Harbor Hospital No. 2 and found no one. In the end, he met his wife Wang Shenzhen at the funeral home. He said that, since February, his wife had been out doing blueberry pick-up work, “all day by day”. The owner of a supermarket across the street told the news that it had rained in the early hours of 3 May and the previous night, and that she had risen at 6:30 p.m. and had seen police cars and ambulances parked by the trees. The live video provided by the local villagers showed that a white car had fallen on the side of the 201-country road and its head had been smashed into a bush, while a farmer in her dress fell in a nearby road and ditch. A week after the accident, traces of damage to the bark of the tree after it was hit were still visible at the site. The nearby section is a slow slope, with a sharp turn. According to a local black car driver, this turn point was also preceded by a car crash. According to the certificate of accident, when a car driving a severe overload passed through the corner, it was wet on the surface of a rainy day and caused the vehicle to slip on the side due to severe speeding and mishandling, which then flipped towards the reflector stake, trees and drains. The section of the accident was marked by a sharp turn, with a speed limit of 60 km/h, while the driving speed of a certain area was severe and reached 112 km/h at the time of the incident. According to the accident certificate, eight female victims were under 38 years of age and the oldest were 68 years of age, of whom six were over 60. Their causes of death include brain damage due to blunt external force. The incident took place one hour away from the home of Wang Sheng Lan in the village of Yellowwood, the village of the saddle in the city of Shanhe, and they were scheduled to arrive shortly at the Blueberry Room in Dandong Port. In terms of administrative division, the Hao city belongs to Dalian and is geographically north-east, bordering the city of Eastport at the south-west end of Dandong City. Holin, the son of Wang Shenzhen, told the news that the drivers were often one of their co-villagers, and that they often picked up their mothers to pick up blueberries, and that they were usually ready to leave at 3:30 in the morning. Six other women from Yellow Tree Village were also in the car with Wang Shenzhen. According to the incident certificate, three of the seven people from the village of Yellowtree were killed in the accident. Zhang Fengying, the victim of the same village, is 61 years old. The villagers of Li Wei Guo told the journalists that Zhang Fengying had gone to pick blueberries for the first time the day before the incident, and who knew that he was gone the next day. According to his knowledge, a female casualty in the same village was in his 60s, “during a longer time in this car (to pick blueberries). There was a sharp turn in the road near the scene. Farmers and women workers

There are many counties, Changtung, Zhao Tung, Xiao Guo Litang... Lee Wei-guk went to the press, which one of them left. There are large fields and houses of peace in the country. When the wind blows, the plastic membrane sands on the crops ring. Villagers live outside the red-walled flats, piled with firewood and rice sticks, and sometimes older villagers walk or ride electric cars. Before becoming a picker, Wang Shenzhen used to grow rice in his home land for the most part. Her husband, Hu Jianquin, said that he could not make a lot of money on the land, that he would buy fertilizer, pesticides and electricity at home, and that “a few acres of fertilizer would cost $4,000 to buy a bottle of pesticides of 30 tons”. He was very friendly to journalists, and when he saw them fearing the dogs in the yard, he helped to protect them, was afraid of being confused, and he was in a hurry to give his son, Harlin, a tweet. As of the beginning of this year, Wang Shenzhen went out to work as a picker. Holin told journalists that the mother had a relatively short time to pick blueberries and had previously taken other pick-ups and had taken a car to travel outside the country. Picking blueberries makes 16 bucks an hour. Hollin knows the driver a lot. According to his understanding, the usual model of cooperation with blueberry shantymen and workers is that the shantymen and the regular hunker pay $20 an hour for a pick-up, and that one of the pick-up workers collects a portion of the car fare and then pays the worker. This is already a very small income for women farmers who do not have a stable source of economic resources. Li Wei Guo said that female workers travelling by car to collect from outside the country are economical, like Zhang Feng Ying, and cannot eat or wear them. He recalled that Zhang Fengying ' s husband had died in her thirties and that she had worked her whole life in agriculture without a permanent job. In Yellow Tree Village, the basic family grows rice, rice, peanuts, soybeans. Lee Wei calculates that, at a good time, an acre of rice makes $5,600, peanuts makes $1,000, soybeans and rice makes hundreds. When the journalist met Li Wei, he was chopping wood at his home. At the same time, he told journalists that the village was now largely full of people over 50 years of age, and that he had been out to work, that the villagers would normally go to the freezer to work, work in the aquaculture, work in factories 10 miles away and hire private cars to pick up people. Li Wei felt that the cost of living was more stressful now than ever before, that prices had risen and that even “scathing” was expensive. “The red and white, which used to be $5.10, is now paid $1,000 for relatives and $200 for regular neighbours.”

He had the impression that, on a daily basis, Zhang Feng Ying would work as part-timers, go to the shed to pick tomatoes, to pick bean horns, and in close proximity, sometimes on his own motorcycle, without having to take a car. He understood the minds of the women workers, who had died in the accident in the same village of their 60-year-old farmer, and whose husband was also a farmer, and who, at an later age, wanted a guarantee. Zhang Feng Ying spent his days with grandchildren in Dalian. Wei Guo Li said that Zhang Feng Ying had returned from Dalian on holiday because her daughter-in-law was on vacation and was able to bring her two-year-old child. She returned home without rest and took the van leading to the blueberry shed. Many of the women who were in the car with Zhang Fengying have not left the land for the rest of their lives, growing rice and rice, caring for the elderly and raising children. Older, they become mobile seasonal casual workers, pick strawberries, pick blueberries, work wherever they want, and hope to earn more security. Eight people were never able to return until they got on that deadly overload. Yellow Tree Village. Mobile seasonal casual workers

The development of scalable cultivation has generated seasonal demand for casual work. A local man in the Hau River told reporters that women farmers in their 50s were more likely to pick blueberries, tomatoes, weeds and fertilize. The local blueberry industry is developing rapidly. The Report on the Development of the Blueberry Industry in China 2024, published by the Faculty of Horticulture of the Jilin Agricultural University and the Institute of Fruit Tree Science of Liaoning Province, shows that the country has over 1.4 million acres of blueberry cultivation, an increase of 197 per cent over 2020. Danton Blueberry Production is one of China's core blueberry production areas. The expansion of the blueberry industry was accompanied by widespread demand for pickers. Wu Xinghua runs a Strawberry Blueberry Cooperative in Dandong Port, where he told reporters that it was the pick-up period for the hothouse blueberries from March to May and for the land blueberries from July to August. During that period, he counted peaks every day, with mature fruits, and every day he looked for workers after work. Because of the relatively high number of local young people who move out, they are generally over-age. “Some 70-year-olds in good health can also pick up.” Wu Xinghua says. In a paper published in 2021, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a scholar, Xian Wing, quoted the explanation given by a farm shareholder to explain why farm workers are more likely to be older women: “The people who can run are out looking for work, and we have a lot fewer people on our side.” “Runful” means that at least during the day it is possible to stay away from home, without needing to care for children and young people, housework, etc. In the traditional family division of labour, this type of work is usually carried out by women, who are close to the farm and who are able to take care of the family while having some income. This year, local Blueberry pickers in Danton are more in need of workers. Yu Zhiqiang is also a blueberry shed in East Harbor and has been working for three years. Yu Jiqiang told reporters that last year most of the blueberries were picked by locals. This year, the area under blueberries in East Port has expanded and Danton strawberries have not earned as much money as they did in the past, with many squatters shifting to blueberries. So, this year, blueberry production is high, cheap, artificial. He stated that a number of overloading vehicles had been brought to work from outside the country, such as from the river, the wideland, the quail and Phoenix, all of which were closed on a daily basis. Foremen who recruit workers generally work as drivers, a driver brings in a driver who pays a wage of $20 per hour — $156 of which is paid to the workers and the rest to himself. Lee Wei Guo, the village village of Huang Pao, said that the driver could earn dozens more a day by placing him alone. According to Li Wei Guo, there are also blueberry huts in the Hao River area, and the number of people who have gone to nearby East Harbor to pick blueberries has increased over the past two years, and Eastern Port has been “lower demand” for pick-ups, with high wages. On 10 May, journalists saw a blueberry shed parked near the road opposite the road where the accident had taken place, with a bus parked in front of the bus with a white-faced black sign, “The River”. In the blueberry shed, journalists saw a dozen 50- and 60-year-old farmwomen picking blueberries, wearing hats or headscarfs, stripes or plasters, skin marks of the wind and tan in the field, a small chair on the back of their backs, a taller blueberries standing on their feet, and a smaller one sitting on a small bench, with their heads down. One of the women said she followed her friends, arrived around 6 a.m. and ended the pick at 3 p.m. If she doesn't pick blueberries, she's at home doing farm work, all kinds of rice. On 10 May, women workers were picking blueberries in the shed opposite the street. Wang Oo, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Chinese Teachers Training University, has been concerned over the situation of rural women workers for many years and has conducted field research in various places. He informed the news that seasonal work had increased demand over the years, while the rural elderly women had increased their motivation or pressure to find work in the context of urbanization. He said that, previously, farming was based on family labour and that farmers worked part-time when they had no agricultural work. There are now two main ways in which capable farmers and agricultural capital can operate: in the field, hundreds of acres and thousands of acres of land are grown to grow wheat, rice, sorghum, which is highly mechanized, and in the cash-crop sector, which involves a large number of seasonal workers, such as strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apples and medicinal products. At that time, the problems of the labour force could not be solved by inter-village acquaintances and required cross-regional labour. For example, many of the women workers who make white tea in Zhejiang have come from places such as Henan, where the women ' s unions live in sheds. Residents of a town in Hao City told journalists that their wives had taken a bus with many to pick up blueberries and that, like the one in the accident, they had taken a job in the village. The wife refused for safety reasons, but would earn less than $20 a day. They're worried about the overload. Wu Xinghua told reporters that overload is more common in the local countryside, “which is tacitly accepted by both workers and drivers”. If the driver was not overloaded, it was too late to send the worker home. In order to save money, it is usually 10 or eight people who squeeze a car. Wu Xinghua stated that each time he greeted the foreman (i.e. the driver) in advance, he said that he needed as many workers as he could, and the other drove. "That's what strawberries, blueberries or other crops do."

"Black Car"

According to the traffic accident certificate, after the accident, the driver often escaped from one of the abandoned vehicles. A number of villagers in the village of Yellowwood, a village of the Sadako hill in the city of Hao River, confirmed to journalists that one of them had been captured. Schoolmates in one of the villages often told journalists that in some previous years, they had often stolen in the countryside, went to prison for several years, and his family had arranged for him to work, which he was not used to, and then began to work as a porter and driver. Yu Jiqiang also knows the driver. Often a business card was delivered to his orchard some time ago, and later brought the worker to pick it up in his shed. But that collaboration left a bad impression on Yu Zhiqiang, who often terrorized the shantytowns and, “If he dared to say that it was not good, let the blueberries rot in the ground”. The van at the time of the incident was often driven to Yu Zhiqiang's house. According to Yu Ji, he saw that the rear seat of the vehicle had been removed and that “the back row was the small Maza”. According to information obtained by journalists on the Network of Judicature Documents, there were six convictions for theft from 2008 to 2019, often at the age of 39. He committed multiple burglaries, ranging from several dozen to tens of thousands of dollars, and repeated offences in the short term after his release, on several occasions as repeat offenders. According to video and tweets published by Dandong traffic police on the shivering, the local bus was overloaded from 2025 to 2026. In March 2026, Danton handed over a special operation, “The 5 per cent ban on the 5 per cent ban”, which included a ban on passenger cars. The incidence of illegal overloading of part-time agricultural workers in rural areas is frequently reported. In September 2025, Liaoning carried 26 people in a 6-man nuclear vehicle, in which villagers were employed to collect pears from orchards; in April 2026, Gansu was driven by a farmer to farm in the nearby spring, and felt that “one more person is okay” and “no traffic police check in the morning”. During interviews in the villages of East Port and Han River, journalists found that local public transport services were less available. For the sake of a casual worker, even if the driver is bad-tempered and is in an overloaded car, it may be an option for the women farmers. On 9 May, at the Grand Orient Mount train station in Dandong Port, information on public transport could not be found in the map software; taxis could not be seen at the station and vehicles could not be reached for longer periods of time. Several rows of “black cars” were parked outside the station, and the drivers were soliciting passengers. On 10 May, after seven local “black vehicles” were pulled by one passenger, they went to pick up the others and the vehicle was overloaded. When the driver discovered that the passengers were travelling on a different route, one of the passengers got out of the vehicle. In the context of the possible lack of capacity of rural public transport as a result of the cross-regional movement of labour, Wang Ou told journalists. He states that, in the face of traffic problems, it is generally workers who need to travel to and from the day without accommodation. The use of casual agricultural work is highly informal, with most of the workers without a contract being piece-work workers; it is generally required to work early and leaves early in the morning. Moreover, the employers were reluctant to deal with casual workers because of the high transaction costs and their desire to have an intermediary, the foreman, who had two tasks: to gather workers and transport workers. According to Wang Oo, there is a greater risk that the foreman will drive, that he is not a professional driver himself and that there is a risk that he will be able to move the workers between the different employers and to hurry. Wang Eo felt that some organizations and part-time workers transporting seasonal workers were not adequately regulated by the relevant departments. He sometimes talks to them about how to deal with the traffic authorities, how to avoid the traffic police, how to avoid the car — for example, at which intersection, not to go around; which time, not to go, to wait; and which traffic police have a good relationship and can deliver cigarettes. One of the above-mentioned primary school students told journalists that “black cars” were prevalent in the area, as it would take more than 100 people to get back and forth from the area. He speculated that the accident often left at some point in the morning, earlier, and also to avoid police investigation. "To earn this money, they'll be flexible and drive fast." Wang Yeo said. In addition to the traffic safety risks, Professor Sun Chinawei, at the Faculty of Political and Public Administration of the University of Chinese Teachers, believes that there should be insurance coverage to cover these casual jobs. Social protection for this type of work should be strengthened while seasonal demand for casual work increases. Rural seasonal passenger transport

The issue of time travel in agriculture had previously attracted the attention of relevant national authorities. In June 2021, the Office of the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued a Circular on Strengthening the Guarantee of Mass Travel Services during Focused Time in Rural Areas, requiring the transport, agricultural and rural sectors to analyse the characteristics of rural people ' s trips at the time of farming, such as spring and autumn harvests, and to improve the targeting and suitability of the provision of passenger transport services. The circular calls for the organization of an advance transport guarantee programme for rural passenger transport operators, which, on the basis of continuous services, will maximize the needs of the rural population in terms of mass and tidal travel, including through the encryption of the frequency of passenger line services, the flexible installation of stopovers and the development of an appointment response service. According to the case disclosed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications's Micro-No. 2021, during the peak of the summer harvest in Ningxia Chinaning County, the Ringin County Motor Transport Company opened a rural custom bus to drive the bus directly to the Zhuang Garden to address the difficulties of mass travel; the transport authorities in Jilin Province directed road passenger enterprises to the food-growing households, cooperatives, etc., and conducted rural passenger service models such as booking responses. In the 2021 edition of Hope, Breaking the Challenge of Rural People and Stoping Mass Deaths and Injuries, it was argued that formal passenger transport enterprises should be encouraged to develop a new model of passenger services for migrant workers in response to the need for concentrated farming, with some subsidies to be considered for the initial period. Wang Ou noted that the demand for blueberries, strawberry pickers, etc., is seasonal, and that it may be too costly to rely on public transport to address the travel problem for the next season. There are many problems in regulating the transportation system, such as who shares the cost of transportation and whether or not the Government grants subsidies, while ensuring public safety and economic efficiency. In his view, in order to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies, local governments and the transfer services had to do something, such as strengthen law enforcement in the areas of driver training management, prohibition of retrofitting and speeding. According to the East Port Concern public, on 3 May, following a road accident in Dandong, the East Port City Transport and Communications Department organized an agricultural worker transport safety check in various towns, which was supported by the Transport Enforcement Department of Dandong City. Traffic enforcers and town staff from both locations go into a variety of farm-related facilities, including strawberries, blueberry sheds and agricultural wrapping points, to map the movement of liners and key information on working vehicles, promote guidance and regulate transport behaviour. The day after the accident, multiple overloads were detected locally. According to the release of the “Danton public security traffic security micro-publishing”, at least three shuttles were stopped by Dandong crossing between 5 and 6 a.m. on 4 May. Without a driver ' s permit, the two seats in the back of the vehicle were removed and a bench was installed. Within 21 days, the public sign revealed seven cases of overpopulation. (In order to protect the privacy of the interviewee, Wang Sheng Lan, Zhang Fengying, Ho Jianquan, Ho Lin, Li Wei Guo, Wu Xinghua, Yu Zhiqiang)