A Chinese bus fell off the bridge after a woman attacked a driver


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A 10-second clip from the onboard camera released by Chongqing police showed a passenger screaming after the driver as he was driving shortly after 10 am Sunday.

The 48-year-old woman then attacked the driver with his mobile phone while he was defending himself with his right arm.

When she hit him again, he abruptly turned the steering wheel to the left, stepping back into the traffic in the opposite direction before hitting the railings on the side of a bridge. Cries can be heard as soon as the video stops.

The release of the clip ends the mystery surrounding the cause of the deadly accident, which came to captivate China as part of a broad TV coverage of a massive search and recovery effort.

For days after the accident, Bus No. 22 was at the bottom of the Yangtze River – in waters over 70 meters (230 feet) deep.

Rescuers are conducting search and rescue operations at the site where a bus dived from a bridge in the Yangtze River in Wanzhou on October 28.

The Dashboard camera filmed in another nearby car, released earlier, had shown the bus load on the wrong side of the road without warning before hitting the Wanzhou Yangtze No. 2 bridge railings and plunging into the river.

The police claimed to have reconstructed what had happened from the recorders' recordings, which had been retrieved by divers, as well as 2,300 hours of surveillance videos along the route buses and many testimonials.

In their findings, the authorities blamed the 42-year-old driver for failing to follow the appropriate safety procedures, but ruled out any mental abnormalities. The bus did not have mechanical problems either.

The statement concluded that the passenger and the driver had broken laws for seriously compromising the safety of the public.

The bus was removed from the river on Wednesday and divers have already found 13 bodies, two of which are still missing.

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