Drunk-driving Chinese official kills five teens

From:NewsCore / December 07, 201011:02PM

THE families of five Chinese teenagers were in mourning after they were killed by a drunk driving government official who tried to flee the scene.

Gu Qingyang, the post office chief in Luoning county in the Hennan province, was drunk at the wheel of an official car when he accelerated and drove down the wrong side of the road.

Eight children were in the path of the car, and Gu allegedly slammed into four boys and one girl, aged between 13 and 16. Three were pronounced dead at the scene and the others died later in the hospital.

“We were walking, and I turned round to see a car coming, and it just hit us. The

driver didn’t even stop or look at what he had done. We chased him,” one of the survivors said.

Gu was stopped by the other three teenagers. He tried to flee again but was only 230m from the scene of the accident when his car broke down.

The teenagers stopped him and demanded he hand over his mobile phone so they could call the police, but Gu refused.A parent of one of the children then flagged down a truck and borrowed the driver’s mobile phone to reach the police.

A colleague of Gu arrived at the scene in an official post office vehicle and tried to take him away but was prevented from doing so by furious local residents.

China launched a crackdown on drunk drivers in recent months, even sentencing to death several drivers who killed pedestrians or cyclists.The most notorious recent accident occurred in October on a campus in northern Hebei province, in which the son of a local police official killed a young woman as she was roller-skating and badly injured another.

When campus security officers tried to stop him, the man dared them to detain him, shouting, “Sue me if you can … my dad is Li Gang.” That scandal transfixed a public increasingly hostile to nepotism and abuse of power.

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醉酒驾车的中国官员撞死五少年

来源:NewsCore / 2010年12月07日发表 / 11:02PM

五位少年的家庭悼念其死去的子女。之前，他们的孩子被一名酒后驾车的政腐官员撞死，该政腐官员在肇事后曾试图逃离现场。

身为河南省洛宁县邮政局办公室主任的谷青阳，酒后驾驶其配车，在处于逆向行驶的情况下行使并顺道加速。

当时车道上有8名少年；并据谷青阳交代，有4个男孩和1个女孩被其所撞，这些孩子的年龄在13至16岁之间。3名受害者当场死亡，其余受害者之后也在医院中相继死亡。

其中一名生还者说道:“ 当时我们正在走路，后来我一转身就见到一辆迎面驶来的汽车，接着我们就被撞到了。那个司机甚至都没有停车或看看他到底干了什么。后来我们就追了过去。”

其他3个少年拦住了谷青阳。他企图再次逃逸，但当他逃出距现场230米的时候，他的车就坏了。

这些少年将他拦下并要求其交出手机以便他们能与警方取得联系，但遭到了谷青阳的拒绝。

这些孩子中，一名孩子的家长拦下一辆卡车，并借用了该卡车司机的手机与警方取得了联系。

接着，谷青阳的一名同事驾驶着一辆邮政局的配车来到了现场，并在试图将谷青阳带离现场的时候被愤怒的当地群众所阻止。

近几个月，中国对酒后驾驶展开了一轮严打整治行动，在该项严打行动中，有数名撞死行人与非机动车骑车人的司机甚至已被判处了死刑。

近来，最臭名远扬的一起事故发生在10月；在河北省北边的一个校园内，一名年轻女子在溜旱冰的时候被车撞死，其余受害者身受重伤。肇事司机是当地警察局局长的儿子。

当学校保卫科的同志试图将其拦下的时候，此人问是否有人敢将其逮捕，并叫嚣：“要告我你就试试看吧…我爸是李刚！”这起丑闻使得公众把他们与日俱增的仇恨矛头直接指向官二代和那些滥用职权的行为。

Austin(译)