Original title: woman killed electric car owner by running red light sentenced to 3 years' compensation of 1.17 million
According to the court of Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, a woman named Xie ran a red light when crossing a zebra crossing and ran away after colliding with an electric car. The owner of the electric car was rescued and died. A few days ago, the first instance of Yinzhou District People's court sentenced Xie to three years' imprisonment and compensated more than 1.17 million yuan.
At about 17:35 on December 6, 2018, the defendant Xie, at the intersection of nanchelu Road, South Ring Road, Wuxiang Township, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, violated the traffic signal, ran a red light from north to South and crossed the road. He collided with Deng, a man driving a two wheeled electric bicycle from east to West in the motorway. Both sides fell to the ground, both were injured and the electric vehicle was damaged. Pedestrians fled to the west after the accident, while the E-bike driver fell unconscious.
At 17:46 on December 6, 2018, passers-by called the police. After the accident, Xie escaped, and the victim Deng died on the same day due to invalid rescue.
After sorting out, on the morning of December 14, 2018, the police officially arrested the hit and run suspect Xie (female, 55 years old), who truthfully explained the course of the accident and the escape situation after the accident. After the case, Xie's relatives compensated 50000 yuan to the victims' relatives.
According to the traffic police department, in this accident, Xie violated the traffic lights and caused the traffic accident to escape, bearing the main responsibility for the traffic accident; Deng driving an electric bicycle in the motorway, bearing the secondary responsibility.
After identification, the victim Deng hit a blunt object with his head in a traffic accident, resulting in skull fracture and subarachnoid hemorrhage, which led to increased intracranial pressure, compression of medulla oblongata vomiting center and life center, weakened cough and other reflexes, inhalation of vomitus, airway obstruction, and bronchial suffocation.
On March 19, 2019, the public prosecution organ charged the defendant Xie with the crime of causing traffic accidents and filed a public prosecution with Yinzhou court. The family of the victim, Deng, filed an incidental civil action, demanding that the defendant compensate for the loss of more than 1.89 million yuan, including medical expenses, funeral expenses, living expenses of the dependents and death compensation.
During the trial, the defendant Xie pleaded guilty to the charges of the public prosecution, and explained that he could not see the road clearly with his umbrella in the rainy and windy night. After the accident, he fled the scene of the accident because he was flustered and worried that the other party might steal money. He did not check the injury of the car owner and did not report to the police.
After hearing, Yinzhou court held that the defendant Xie violated the road traffic management laws and regulations, resulting in a major traffic accident causing one death, and escaped after the traffic accident, which has constituted the crime of causing traffic accident. Xie's criminal behavior causes the plaintiff of incidental civil action to suffer losses, so he should bear the corresponding civil compensation liability according to law. The defendant, Xie, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and compensated the victims' families for medical expenses, funeral expenses, living expenses of the dependents and death compensation, totaling more than 1.17 million yuan.