On the afternoon of Sept. 3, on her way home from work in an battery car, she suddenly bumped into a drone hovering about a meter from the ground and rolled her car into a ditch along the road. When she was lifted up, the back of her head was bleeding and her little thumb had been cut off, and she had not woken up after a craniotomy in the hospital...
The involved UAV has a diameter of more than 1 meter.
She hit the rotor directly.
The drone, from a technology company in Zhejiang Province, was commissioned by an agricultural company to spray pesticide on rice with "white leaf blight". The day of the accident was the third day of their local operation.
The UAV is more efficient than manual spraying. It has a single arm of 44.2cm in length, four rotors, and can carry 10 kilograms of potion at a time, and spray in five or six minutes.
In addition to wher a remote control, the UAV is connected to the phone via a app, which allows it to check the power and the rest of the potion at any time. After the spray is finished, it needs to land and reload.
This time, it happened as the drone ran out of potions and prepared to delet them.
The flyer has a flying license but says "no" to these key questions.
This time, the drone is not "black", the company has a "civil drone pilot aircraft operating permit", and its flyer Chen also has a license issued by the China Civil Aviation Authority, and the drone is also known to be covered by accident insurance.
But when asked if "such uav can take off and land on the road, have they trained the operation rules and procedures of the pesticide-sprayed unmanned aerial vehicles in the examination of the corresponding certificates, and whether the company has any relevant regulations", Chen said that there is no relevant regulations, and he has not received such training, and there is no explicit provision that the uav can not be taken off or landed over the road.
And Chen said, when UAV takes-off and lands, generally warning signs do not be set around: "There are no provisions in this respect, mainly depending on the operator himself to do observation before the take-off and landing process."
For Liu's injury, the preliminary opinion of Jinhua Judicial Identification Center is at least serious injury level two. On September 18, the People's Procuratorate of Wucheng District decided to approve the arrest of Chen on suspicion of negligence causing serious injury.
