After the car crash, he lay in the car and fell asleep. A pregnant woman with a bloodied face stepped out of the other vehicle. A black sedan had smashed over ten meters of guardrails before veering into the opposite lane.
Yesterday afternoon, a man drove under the influence of alcohol along Construction Road from west to east and collided with the central隔离护栏 (isolation barrier). The speeding car immediately broke through the barrier, its front end extending into the opposite lane where it hit the left door of a normally traveling minivan. It then collided with a Toyota behind it, and a Rover car following the Toyota couldn't brake in time and ended up rear-ending it. As a result, Construction Road became congested. The accident left three people injured, and including the offending vehicle, a total of four cars were damaged.
Chief reporter of the Evening News, Xu Fugeng, wrote this report with photos taken by reporter Wang Zi.
The offending driver was heavily intoxicated and could barely stand.
In the impacted vehicle, there was a pregnant woman surnamed Yan, five months into her pregnancy. She sustained head injuries with a wound below her eye, her face covered in blood. At the time, she was sitting behind the driver. After the collision, she was jolted to the back of the passenger seat. Currently at the hospital, she requires further examination for her child's condition. She described the incident as feeling like a nightmare. The arriving police officers were eager to rescue the victims and clear the traffic, but the offending driver had slumped in the car and fallen asleep.
At 3:25 PM yesterday, I arrived at the north entrance of Bishagang Park on Construction Road. There, I saw a black Shanghai Volkswagen sedan with the license plate number Yu ACM179. Its front engine hood was raised high, and the front bumper was nowhere to be found. The left front end of the Honda car with the license plate number Yu AEY877 was dented in, while a red Rover sedan also suffered damage to its front end.
By the offending Shanghai Volkswagen sedan, the police officers helped the driver Zhou out of the car and brought him to the police car. The police stated that Zhou was driving a car belonging to Zhengzhou Coal Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.
Because the offending driver was heavily intoxicated and could neither stand nor speak coherently, after being placed in the police car, he soon slumped inside and fell into a deep sleep.
The captain of Traffic Police Detachment No. 3, Wang Yong, was on-site directing traffic, urging the officers to quickly investigate the scene and take photos before towing away the accident vehicles. Traffic resumed 20 minutes later.
The offending driver was detained for 15 days and fined 1,500 yuan.
At 3:50 PM yesterday, the offending driver was taken to Traffic Police Detachment No. 3. Even after waiting over an hour, the driver still could not speak coherently. Since they needed to take him to the hospital for a blood test, at 5 PM, two officers carried him onto the police car and took him to the hospital.
At 6 PM yesterday, I learned from the hospital that most of the injured people in the accident had minor injuries, their emotions stable, and they were currently receiving treatment.
At 7 PM last night, I learned from Traffic Police Detachment No. 3 that after the blood test confirmed drunk driving, the police decided to detain Zhou for 15 days, fine him 1,500 yuan, and deduct 12 points from his driver's license. "In other words, his driver's license is now invalid," the officer said. During the interview, reporters learned that Zhou was a section chief at Zhengzhou Coal Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.