Xinhua News, 2009-05-27
After rear-ending a motorcycle—resulting in the death of its driver and passenger—while driving an illegally-licensed car, Li Fengguo, assistant director of the Pingjiang County (Hunan Province) Construction Bureau, left the scene of the accident. Eight hours later, Li turned himself in to traffic police, too late, according to Xu Qilin, the officer in charge, to administer a blood alcohol test. Because Li “arranged for a friend to handle things at the scene” and later personally came to police, Xu determined Li had not fled from the scene of the accident. Although police concluded that Li was primarily liable for the fatal accident, he should be immune from criminal prosecution because he had reached a “criminal reconciliation” settlement totaling 650,000RMB with the families of the deceased. Those same families now claim police forced them to sign the reconciliation settlement before the cause of the accident had been determined.
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