The Wenji M9 was involved in a car accident and collided with a light pole. Only the paint was peeled off and the check-in area became the site.

a car made ofhuawei The new energy vehicle brand “Wenji” M9 sedan jointly produced by Hongmeng Intelligent and Cyrus Automobile recently crashed into a roadside light pole at a speed of 139 kilometers per hour in Yulin, Shenmu City, Shaanxi Province. The car crashed and one person died. The electric pole that was attacked had only some paint left and was almost intact. The entire network expressed surprise at this miracle and jokingly called it “the best pole within 10 million (RMB, the same below)”. They rushed to investigate, causing the lamppost to become an Internet celebrity attraction. But then the light pole was blocked in the name of “renovation”, causing netizens to ridicule: “After Xunji’s brake pedal is broken and banned, do you want to cover the sky with one hand?”

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According to Observer.com, the incident occurred late at night on October 17. A Wenji car ran a red light at an intersection in Shenmu city, Yulin, Shaanxi province, collided with a light pole and caught fire. Local police said only the driver of the car died and the cause was being investigated. Following the incident, there was much online speculation about the cause of the accident. Some netizens compared this incident with the previous incident in which Xunji was taken out by a “car expert” who broke the brake pedal bracket three times in a row, raising questions about Huawei’s outsourcing of car manufacturing. The matter did not attract attention until Wenji issued an accident explanation on 21 October.

Wenji said in a statement that the vehicle was being driven manually at the time of the incident. The speed while passing through the intersection was 139.1 km/h. The speed limit on the stretch of road where the incident occurred was 50 km/h. The driver hit the square traffic light pole at the intersection, due to which the vehicle caught fire after the collision. Wenji emphasized that “no abnormal defects were found in the driving condition of the vehicle before the incident.” This refuted accident-related speculations such as “battery explosion” and “smart driving collision” circulating on the Internet.

Wenji also reported that after the collision, the vehicle emergency call (eCALL) system was immediately activated and connected, and the Wenji Road Rescue Center assisted in the rescue; Wenji is currently cooperating fully with the relevant departments to investigate the accident.

It has been reported on the internet that the signal light pole collapsed after being hit by a vehicle and was damaged due to the accident. However, staff from the traffic control brigade of Shenmu city, Shaanxi province responded that the traffic light pole did not break or fall after the incident. An open flame broke out after the vehicle collided. The high temperature caused the internal circuitry of the traffic light pole to burn out and become short circuited. The metal lamp pole shell was smoked by the open flame and caused extensive discoloration.

Some self-media published an article saying that if the speed and impact duration are calculated as 0.1 seconds, as Wenzi said, then the light pole had to bear the impact force equivalent to 115.8 tons at that time, but it only suffered minor injuries and lost some paint. This is incredible and wonderful. Immediately, more and more netizens rushed to the local area to see “this best pole within 10 million yuan”, and the scene was full of people coming to check-in.

However, the day after the crowd appeared, the Internet-famous light pole was cordoned off in the name of renovation to prevent people from seeing it. Sohu Auto was then banned for 15 days on Weibo for first publishing the video of the collision. The paper’s introspective article about the accident was also questionable. “Vanishing” has attracted a large number of netizens to be dissatisfied. They all recalled that after the Xunji brake pedal bracket breakage incident, related videos and reports such as Xinhua News Agency suspected that it had “disappeared”, raising the question that Huawei, which is “too far ahead” in domestic products, “wants to cover the sky with one hand.” However, these claims received no response from the concerned units.