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Richard
08-23-2009, 06:46
Alcohol - an eternally global problem.

Richard's $.02 :munchin

China Arrests 15,000 Drink-drivers In A Week
AFP, 23 Aug 2009

Chinese police caught 15,000 people in just the first week of a crackdown on drink-driving, organised in part to appease a public angered by a series of fatal accidents, state media said Sunday.

Drink-driving cases are concentrated in the nation's wealthy areas, with 3,075 reported in east China's Zhejiang province and 1,542 in Shanghai, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the public security ministry.

Despite the crackdown, there has been "no obvious drop" in the number of drink-driving cases, the ministry said, according to Xinhua.

China kicked off the two-month campaign on August 15, hoping to ensure safer roads before and during the October 1 60th anniversary of the communist state, the agency reported.

It also follows public uproar after drunk driving resulted in several lethal accidents in recent months.

Earlier this month, a drink-driver in east China's Hangzhou city killed a 16-year-old girl, while in Shanghai another killed a boy aged four.

In a signal of a tougher approach, China handed down a death sentence last month to a motorist who killed four people after drinking "large quantities" of a strong Chinese spirit, the nation's first such use of capital punishment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090823/wl_asia_afp/chinatrafficcrime_20090823050304

LarryW
08-23-2009, 10:55
Seems the death penalty is the most effective way of dealing with "drink-drivers" in China. Maybe there's too much lead in the Mao Tai.

Richard
08-23-2009, 11:51
Maybe there's too much lead in the Mao Tai.

Now that's a good one! :D :D

Richard