Drunk driver flees after deadly crash with couple on scooter

Drunk driver steps on the gas after killing a woman and injuring a man on a scooter in Taipei’s Shilin District

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/11/29
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In the early hours of this morning a drunk driver barreling down the road in Taipei’s Shilin District collided with a couple on a scooter, killing the female passenger and injuring the male driver, before speeding off to try to avoid prosecution, reported Liberty Times.

Early this morning a 23-year-old man surnamed Hsu (許), while driving his silver sedan eastbound on Zhongzheng Road, is suspected to have run the red light at the intersection of Zhongzheng Road and Wenlin Road smashing into a couple waiting at the red light in the process. The massive impact caused the scooter’s occupants to hurtle 10 meters away resulting in the 23-year-old female passenger surnamed Tsai (蔡) succumbing to her injuries in the hospital and the 28-year-old male driver surnamed (林) going into a coma.
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