Kaohsiung, Jan. 12 (CNA) A man who killed one person and injured three others from the same family while driving under the influence of alcohol last month in Kaohsiung has been officially charged with homicide.
A man who killed one person and injured three others from the same family while driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol last month in Kaohsiung has been officially charged with homicide.
The 38-year-old man, Huang Tzu-yang (黃子洋), was aware that he was unable to operate a vehicle safely and might get into a crash that could result in death or injury, but still drove his vehicle at about 7pm on Dec. 26 after drinking some alcohol, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement yesterday.
Because Huang should have known not to drive drunk and his drunk driving resulted in
Kaohsiung, Dec. 28 (CNA) A district court has ruled that a drunk driver who plowed into a family of four on a crosswalk in Kaohsiung on Sunday, killing one and injuring three, must be held in detention but not incommunicado.
The Kaohsiung District Court has detained a man who allegedly caused a fatal crash while driving drunk on Sunday, but did not hold him incommunicado.
The 38-year-old man, surnamed Huang (黃), allegedly drove into a family of four on a crosswalk, killing a woman and injuring three others.
At midnight on Monday, the court ruled that Huang be detained for driving under the influence resulting in death and offenses against public safety.
After interrogating Huang, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office submitted a request to the court asking that he be detained on suspicion of having committed “homicide offenses,” as stipulated in the
Kaohsiung, Dec. 27 (CNA) Prosecutors in Kaohsiung will make a decision Monday over charges against a car driver who struck and killed a woman on a pedestrian crossing Sunday while five times over the legal blood alcohol limit.