Official fired for smiling at fatal crash 21 (UPI) -- A Chinese official photographed smiling at a multiple-fatality crash and scorned for wearing a dozen expensive watches has been fired, authorities said. Work safety official Yang Dacai was dismissed from his position on the provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and from his job as head of the provincial work safety administration, China Daily reported. Yang was photographed with a broad smile on Aug. 26 while he checked out a collision between a bus and a methanol tanker that killed 36 people. The photo stirred public anger. Later, photographs surfaced of him wearing 11 watches on other occasions, with one reportedly valued at $5,550, the BBC reported. The resultant controversy prompted an investigation by the Shaanxi province Communist Party discipline commission, which found him guilty of "serious wrongdoing." In his defense, Wang said he was smiling at the accident scene because staff members already there appeared nervous and "I was trying to get them to relax a little." He said the watches were purchased with "legal income."