Worried about being caught for drunk driving his boss’ car and crashing it into three trees and a river, a man in Yangzhou thought a bath would be just the ticket to avoid detection. While his boss assisted in the endeavour, it would all be to no avail.
At around 03:00 on 14 July in Yangzhuang Village of Chenji Town in Yangzhou’s Yizheng City, a jeep knocked down the trees at the side of the road and careered into a small river. Very quickly, the man driving it abandoned the car and went ashore.
Upon arriving at the scene, police from the Yizheng’s Dayi Traffic Police Squad found that the off-road vehicle was almost completed submerged, despite bing considerably taller than an ordinary saloon. Its occupant(s) had escaped, the Yangtze Evening News reports.
Investigations led police to discover a man surnamed Yang had been driving the jeep at the time of the accident. Yang initially maintained to police that driving in the dark made him careless for a while, mistakenly using the accelerator as the brake. Hence the accident.
Yang also claimed to have not drunk alcohol beforehand, yet he blocked an on-site, breath-alcohol test with his tongue.
After repeated reminders by police, Yang breathed normally, producing a test result of 103mg/100ml. Warning him that he was suspected of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence, Yang was then taken to hospital to have his blood drawn for testing.
When Yang eventually came clean, it transpired that he had dinner with friends that evening and arranged for them to rest in his office after they had been drinking. But Yang quietly drove off in his boss’ jeep.
Escaping the car in the river, Yang stood on the roof and called his boss for help. Their collusion saw the two not call the police, but instead go to a nearby bathhouse to take a shower, eventually contacting the authorities some 2 hours after the accident, presumably thinking the affects of alcohol on Yang had sufficiently abated.
Despite their trickery, Yang is being prosecuted by public security organs for dangerous and drunk driving. Yangzhou traffic police remind that drunk driving is an extremely irresponsible behaviour endangering the lives of oneself and others.
