A two-year-old toddler was run over by two vans and mortally wounded,after which 18 people passed her indifferently in south China'sGuangdong Province.Thanks to the 19th passer-by, a womangarbage collector who came to her aid about seven minutes after thefirst hit, the girl didn't die immediately in last Thursday's incident.But doctors said the girl died yesterday from severe brain injuries shehad suffered in the accident.Police have detained both drivers.Afterthe surveillance video of the incident was put online yesterday, manynetizens condemned the 18 passers-by who could have helped the girlavoid the second accident. The case was the latest to bring home thequestion of whether people today are too cold-blooded to help, orwhether it's smart to stay away from an accident to avoid the chance ofbeing accused of responsibility by the victim.The girl,identified by her parents as Yueyue, was knocked down by a van about5:30pm last Thursday, when walking alone in a hardware wholesalingmarket in the city of Foshan. The car driver stopped for a while afterthe front wheel rolled over the girl. But he sped away soon and the rearwheel crushed her again.A witness walked around the girl lyingon the narrow street without stopping, the surveillance camera showed.Then a biker and a pedestrian passed her but ignored the girl strugglingin a pool of blood.A second van driver, who didn't see thegirl, crushed her again and fled the scene. After the second hit,Yueyue became motionless.Over the ensuing five minutes, 15 people passed her and each of them just took a look. None stopped to lend a hand.Thenfinally, about seven minutes after the girl was hit by the first van,the trash collector came to her aid. She rushed to help her sit up butYueyue was paralyzed. So the woman moved her from the middle of thestreet to the side. She yelled for help and Yueyue's mother came andheld her daughter in her arms.Yueyue was rushed to theGeneral Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, where she remained inthe intensive care unit until she died yesterday afternoon."She couldn't breathe on her own," said Wen Qiang, deputy director of the ICU department.Theincident is the latest example of passers-by acting indifferently tovictims injured in crimes. In this case, some blamed the parents forletting the girl walk on the street alone. More criticized thephenomenon of people passing by without helping, caused at least in partby previous extortion attempts from the injured and their families whohave sometimes tried to blame the person helping.