Two university students have been detained in Beijing on suspicion of dangerous driving after their street-racing antics resulted in a brutal car crash near the Bird's Nest stadium on Saturday night.
Tang, 21, and Yu, 20, drove a green Lamborghini and red Ferrari at speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour through Chaoyang District before the vehicles collided in a tunnel close to the 2008 Olympic site.
The incident captured the attention of many netizens both because it coincided with the theatrical release of Fast and Furious 7, which broke Chinese box office records on its opening weekend, and because it reminded them of the country's widening wealth gap and the unaccountability and out-of-touch lifestyles of China's ruling elite.
Owing to their presumably privileged family background, many commenters initially casted doubts as to whether the drivers would be punished or not, once it was revealed that both had survived and only one was injured. In the incident report, the pair responsible were simply described as "unemployed."
This evening, the detention of the two young suspects was announced by authorities, but three mysteries still remain. Who exactly are these young men? Who left behind the black high-heeled shoes found amongst the debris? And were they in fact racing?
[Images via Beijing News]
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