This Day in History: On this day in 2020, Yohanis Budi Santoso, 21, was strangled in the middle of the road while riding his motorcycle in Surakarta, Indonesia. A 5-metre-long, very thin glass kite line that had been stuck on a nearby electrical pole struck his neck and cut his carotid artery. He managed to get up and untangle himself. He was brought to hospital by a passer-by but later pronounced dead on arrival of exsanguination.
Incidents involving kite strings are sadly not uncommon. About that same time, a man from Bali received cuts on his fingers and neck when he was driving his motorbike and got tangled up with a kite string, for which he reportedly got stitches.
"Sharp kite strings have killed three people in India in a single day, according to police. A 4-year-old boy had his throat slit while he was looking out of a car’s sunroof and a 22-year-old man received a lethal cut on his neck while riding a motorbike on August 15, according to Pushpendra Kumar, the deputy commissioner of the West Delhi Police. The same day, a 3-year-old girl looking out the sunroof was strangled by a kite string which cut her neck, according to a deputy commissioner of North West Delhi Police." Source
Also: "A 62-year-old male presented to our orthopedic emergency department with a lacerated wound on the posterior aspect of the right ankle in January 2019. The mechanism of injury was narrated as a kite string (manja) getting entangled around his ankle while he was walking on the side of the road, unaware of any thread, and a bicycle rode speedily past him. The patient was unable to bear weight on the affected limb and was brought on a trolley." Source
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