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Drunk law maker gets life for fatal crash

By Jane Chen | June 8, 2010, Tuesday | Online Edition

A CITY legislator of east China's Zhejiang Province has been jailed for life for drunk driving in a crash that left four people dead and six others injured.

Taizhou City Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang today announced the verdict on Yang Shuzhong, a deputy of both the county-level and municipal People's Congresses in Taizhou's Sanmen County.

Yang, 48, was convicted of threatening public security. More than 50 Taizhou law makers had heard the trial two weeks ago.

The court said Yang had drunk four bottles of Hennessey XO with four other people on April 5 before his black BMW hit eight vehicles at 8:12pm.

Roadside tests showed the legislator had 330 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, four times the legal limit of 80mg.

Yang offered compensation to the victims' families ranging from 580,000 yuan (US$74,674) to 610,000 yuan. The families agreed to ask the court for leniency in punishment.

Yang owns a medical chemical company in Sanmen. One of his products, procaine hydrochloride, accounts for 80 percent of the global market. His company also cooperated with Zhejiang University in medical chemistry and was the most profitable local enterprise. Yang is also known as a generous philanthropist and a kind boss.

China has introduced laws to block drunk drivers from roads after a series of deaths caused by drunk drivers.

Convicted drunk drivers now have to pay up to 30 percent more in compulsory car insurance premiums.

Drivers found driving under the influence of alcohol pay 10 to 15 percent more for the compulsory liability insurance.

Police have detained more than 38,000 drunk drivers in 313,000 cases in a nationwide crackdown, and suspended 280,000 driving licenses.

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