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Police detain driver after car crash outside US Consulate
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A MAN who drove his car into a guardrail outside the US Consulate in Shanghai on Thursday, injuring a Chinese sentry, was immediately taken in custody, police said in a statement yesterday.
Liu Daojie, 35, from southeast China’s Fujian Province, was driving a black Toyota sedan when it veered off the road and crashed into the barrier outside the consulate at 9:43pm and came to a stop, the statement said.
One person, a member of the paramilitary Armed Police who guard diplomatic missions in China among other duties, was slightly injured, police said. He suffered minor injuries to his head, face and chest, they said.
A spokesman for the US Consulate confirmed an “incident,” but said the matter was still under investigation.
He told reporters early yesterday: “All mission personnel at the consulate general have been accounted for and the consulate general is expected to be open for business as usual today, the 13th.”
Liu, who runs his own company, told police he felt someone wanted to kill him.
Authorities initially ruled out alcohol or drugs as a possible cause of the incident, adding that the man appeared to be “confused.”
“Today I drove from Hangzhou to Shanghai, and saw this place guarded by armed police. So I drove up,” the police statement quoted him as saying, adding that his “thoughts were muddled and words incoherent.”
Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province, which borders Shanghai.
It was unclear whether Liu was aware that the compound in the city’s Xuhui District houses some functions of the US government in Shanghai.
Images posted on social media showed the car, which appeared to have mounted the pavement and crashed into the guardrail at the consulate.
Liu’s wife said he had been saying that someone was trying to kill him for the past month and had refused to go out, according to the police statement. He had previously sought medical help, it said.
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