I don’t remember seeing any accidents actually. Other than school, I was mostly just left at home with my older brother with no adult supervision. Not much opportunity to be outside.

Sometimes my maternal grandmother would be here to watch us, but sometimes she’d be at her village back in Taishan.

Actually, you know what was worse than accidents? My brother fucking playing with fire at home because we were bored af. He poured white-out liquid onto a piece of paper and lit it on fire using a lighter.

What the fuck lol. Luckily, the buildings were made of concrete/cement and its not a wooden house.

But I now remember the doors we had could be locked from the outside, so sometime my parents would lock the door from the outside to make sure we didn’t like run away from home or something. (Think like the “child proof” car locks, its basically that, but for doors at home) I had no idea if they did that that day. But I guess we got lucky nothing got caught on fire. I remember telling my mom about my brother doing it and it didn’t even seem to faze her, like my brother didn’t get in trouble or anything, I don’t think. (I think this is probably similar to the “boys will be boys” attitude)

Edit: Sorry, last question I answered was about Guangzhou, forgot you mean like in general.

Gonna reply later as I try to remember.