FOUR people were found unconscious in a car in Buji Subdistrict in Longgang District on Monday, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily.

A staffer at a trash transfer station, who was identified by his surname Yang, noticed a silver car at the gate of the station when he was driving a truck to the station. Yang tried to get the driver’s attention to move the car by knocking on the window but received no reply.

Yang then looked in the window and saw four people lying unconscious in the car. The driver was foaming at the mouth, while the lady in the passenger’s seat had vomit on her body. In the back sat an old man and a middle-aged woman, both of whom were unconscious.

The ambulance arrived about two minutes later, and the ambulance driver surnamed Rong immediately took out the emergency hammer to break the window.

“The temperature in the car was high and the air was sour and smelly. We couldn’t even check if they were still alive,” said Rong.

The doctors started rescuing the passengers on the scene. Fortunately, all of them were saved from life-threatening danger and were sent to different hospitals nearby.

“I didn’t feel uncomfortable at first,” said one of the passengers, surnamed Xiao. “Then I lost consciousness when the car was driving near the trash station. When I woke up, I found myself in the hospital.”

She said that she did not know the reasons they had fallen unconscious, but her father was diagnosed with food poisoning.

A reporter with the Daily learned from the Longgang police that the driver and passengers’ vomit had been sent away for further investigation. The result has not yet been released.

Baihe Hospital in Longgang District told the reporter that the passengers might have experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. “However, the final result is to be confirmed by the police’s test,” said Xie, the vice president of Baihe Hospital.

(Chen Qingxuan)