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Written by: Guo Haotian
2020-10-22 15:00
Last update date: 2020-10-22 15:00
Liu Mingming, a member of the Hong Kong Karate team, was found in the driver's seat of his Tesla private car in July this year, full of alcohol and vomit on the car. The police asked him to "blow bobo" and found that his breath sample contained The amount of alcohol exceeds the legal limit 3 times.
Liu earlier admitted to driving while drunk in the Kowloon City Court, and pleaded with him that he did not drive at the time of the case, which had little impact and hoped that the license would be exempted from suspension.
The magistrate today (22nd) sentenced Liu to a social service order for 80 hours, but considered that he could be exempted from suspension without special reasons, and ordered Liu to suspend his license for 9 months and attend a driving improvement course.
Defendant Liu Mingming (31 years old), pleaded guilty to a crime of in charge of a car when the alcohol concentration in his breath exceeded the prescribed limit. He alleged that he was in charge of a car on the road near Granville Road near Granville on July 8 this year. In the proportion of alcohol in the breath, there are 64 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters, which is nearly three times the legal limit of alcohol per 100 nanograms.
Plead for no suspension and rejected
The defense pleaded that the incident occurred in the middle of the night, the crowd was sparse, and the defendant did not drive the vehicle, and the chance of an accident was low.
The defendant is a full-time athlete and will also drive when going out for competitions, hoping that the court won't have him suspended.
The magistrate considered the defendant's background and agreed that he did not have a mobile car at the time, and the situation was not too bad, so he sentenced him to a social service order, but believed that there were no special circumstances that could be exempted from the suspension, so he still ordered the defendant to be suspended.
The driver closed his eyes and was checked
At about 3 a.m. on the day of the incident, when police officers patrolled Granville Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, they saw a Tesla electric vehicle illegally parked. The defendant was sitting in the driver’s seat with his eyes closed. There was vomit in the vehicle. The police officer took the defendant. The defendant was awakened several times on his shoulders. At that time, the defendant was drunk and reacted slowly. An alcohol breath test showed that his alcohol content exceeded the standard, and he was warned to admit that he had drunk.
Case Number: KCCC 1990/2020
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