Fatal accident driver helped by businesses
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A DRIVER involved in a fatal accident who has disappeared owing compensation to her victims’ families is to have the money paid by businesspeople from her home city.
The Wenzhou City chamber of commerce in Shanghai announced yesterday that it will pay the money owed by Qian Jingjing, a native of the city in neighboring Zhejiang Province.
Wenzhou entrepreneurs have a tradition of helping each other when doing business outside their home city.
This follows an online “human flesh hunt” for Qian, who in April 2011 killed a local IT engineer, surnamed He, and left his fiancee, surnamed Li, seriously injured when she suddenly changed lane on Huqingping Highway in Qingpu District.
Qian and the victims’ families reached an agreement in which she agreed to compensate a total of 1.85 million yuan (US$302,600).
Wenzhou Yulu Investment Co, the business owned by her father, Qian Jialing, was named as guarantor, the Changning District People’s Court said.
The court gave Qian Jingjing a 15-month non-custodial sentence.
However, after paying 800,000 yuan, the Qians stopped payments in September 2012.
He’s father took the Qians to court early 2013, which ordered them to pay the money.
But the father and daughter disappeared shortly afterward.
Eventually, He tracked down Qian Jingjing to an address in Minhang District and last March police detained her father for 15 days.
Qian Jialing brought a letter of apology from his daughter to He and Li’s families.
“I lost my job and just gave birth, so I had no money to compensate and changed my phone number without thinking‚“ she wrote.
“I promise to compensate, even though my father has lost a lot of money on business and no one is willing to lend money to us,” she added.
But the Qians did another disappearing act last October with 800,000 yuan outstanding.
Not a fugitive
The judge who presided over the case, surnamed Lin, told Shanghai Daily that they have had no contact with Qian Jingjing since May 2013.
However, Lin said that as she had served her non-custodial sentence, Qian Jingjing was not a fugitive.
“Since Qian served her 15-month sentence, now she is considered as an ordinary citizen, not a criminal, who owes money to the victims’ families and cannot be traced,” Lin said.
“The only thing we could do is to find her property in Shanghai and seize it.”
“But this unemployed woman’s spending depended on her father’s business, which went from bad to worse after his name appeared on a bad credit list,” added Lin.
“We can only hope she comes forward to face the consequences of what she caused rather than leave her parents responsible,” Lin said.
Netizens engaging in an online hunt for Qian Jingjing found her microblog account and photographs.
The top official with the Wenzhou chamber of commerce in Shanghai said it will help the Qians, saying Qian Jialing has lost a lot of money due to the situation.
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