5 years on, driver pays over fatal crash
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A driver owing unpaid compensation of 720,000 yuan (US$105,000) after she killed a man and seriously injured his fiancee in a car crash five years ago has showed up after fleeing Shanghai and paid her debt, according to the Changning District People’s Court.
The accident occurred at 10:30pm on April 4, 2011, when Qian Jingjing, then 24, was driving on the Huqingping Highway. She suddenly changed lanes and slammed into a car on the right, killing the driver, 32-year-old He Xinling, and leaving his fiancee surnamed Li with serious brain damage.
She avoided a 15-month jail sentence when she agreed in December that year to pay more than 1.2 million yuan in compensation. Her father’s Wenzhou Yulu Investment Co was named as guarantor.
But Qian and her family disappeared from Shanghai without paying after she ended her probation period without violation and therefore avoided the risk of jail.
They returned to their hometown in Wenzhou City in Zhejiang Province. There, Qian opened a car wash, married and delivered a son. Her father continued to run his business.
He’s grandmother died soon after his death and his uncle later committed suicide, according to Shanghai Television Station.
A city-wide search for the family in Wenzhou was then launched, along with a campaign to collect evidence to prove their ability to pay the full compensation amount.
Overwhelmed by pressure from the media and the court, the family paid about 510,000 yuan over several years, and Qian went to Changning court on Monday to pay the remaining 720,000 yuan.
At the court, she bowed to the victims’ relatives for forgiveness.
She insisted she had not been fleeing her debt, she had just needed time to gather the money as her father’s company was in debt.
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