Teenage Girl Dragged 700 Meters to Her Death by Drunk Driver

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Teenage Girl Dragged 700 Meters to Her Death by Drunk Driver

by Peter Barefoot on Friday, March 15, 2013

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From QQ:
17-Year-Old Girl Dragged 700 Meters by Drunk Driver, Dies

“Every time I think of my daughter’s horror-struck eyes as she laid on the roadside, I hear her heart-wrenching cry.” Overnight, Hebei Province Daming County People’s Hospital doctor Zhao Qi forever lost his beloved wife and daughter. Daming County police revealed on the 9th that they had solved a drunk driving case in which a mother and her daughter were both killed. This picture [above] is of March 8th, Hebei Dajing County, after his daughter’s death, the heart-broken Zhao Qi hadn’t slept for days, and with the absence of his wife and daughter, the home seemed deserted.

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“My wife was the head nurse of Daming County People’s Hospital, and my daughter was in her first year of high school.” Zhao Qi told this reporter. March 3rd, at about 9:40pm, his wife Xu Qiaoling was taking their daughter home on an electric scooter from a nighttime study session. When they were at about 50 meters east of the intersection between the county’s Beijing Road and Jingfu Avenue, they were suddenly hit directly from behind by a speeding car, causing a severe head injury to wife Xu Qiaoling at the scene, while daughter Zhao Hongye was dragged away by the car.

Instead of getting out of the car and helping the wounded, the driver and the other people in the car fled the scene with the car dragging the 17-year-old Zhao Hongye along the road, and after driving over 700 meters, this young girl was left by the roadside. After a brief pause, they fled the scene at full speed, and were at last intercepted by both Daming County Dajie Village Traffic Police on duty vehicles and the County Police Station’s special police officers. This picture is of the scene of the incident.

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As it is understood, this traffic accident has aroused widespread concern from all sectors of society. At night on March 7th, hundreds of people, including the colleagues of the deceased Xu Qiaoling, the schoolmates of the deceased Zhao Hongye, some netizens who Had been following this incident, and some other concerned people, arrived at the People’s Square in Daming County, lighting candles and praying for the mother and the daughter. At present, the driver responsible and the other 3 people on the car have been held in custody at the Daming County detention center, and the case is in the course of being heard. This picture is of a photo of Zhao Hongye while she was alive (re-taken).

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Due to this incident creating a terrible influence locally, on March 8th, the Daming County government has already tasked public security authorities and other departments with assembling a special task force to conduct further investigations and verifications with regards to this matter, with relevant personnel to re-examine the scene of the incident. According to the description of the situation provided by the police:

On March 3rd, at about 9:50pm, a traffic accident happened 50 meters east of the intersection between the county’s Beijing Road and Jingfu Avenue. Traffic Police Brigade District Squad officers Kang Xianghe and Wang Yaxu arrived at the scene, discovering one dead body, a motor scooter, and fragments of a motor vehicle. The car responsible had fled the scene. Based on a tracks left at the scene going from west to east, the police officers pursued east by car for about 700 meters and discovered another dead body at the center of the road.

Handan City Daming County People’s Hosptial doctor Zhao Qi has forever lost his beloved wife and daughter.

According to the person in charge at Daming Traffic Police Brigade, through a blood test, the driver responsible was driving drunk, and the other 3 people in the car had also been drinking that night. This picture is of the automobile involved. Photo provided by Daming County police.
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Zhao Qi taking out a blood-stained and terribly torn grey down jacket from a black plastic bag.
Holding the shredded jacket, looking at the scattered feathers, he choked with sobs.


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