THE families of five Chinese teenagers were in mourning after they were killed by a drunk-driving government official who tried to flee the scene.
Gu Qingyang, the post office chief in Luoning county in the Hennan province, was drunk at the wheel of an official car when he accelerated and drove down the wrong side of the road.
Eight children were in the path of the car, and Gu allegedly slammed into four boys and one girl, aged between 13 and 16. Three were pronounced dead at the scene and the others died later in the hospital.
“We were walking, and I turned round to see a car coming, and it just hit us. The driver didn’t even stop or look at what he had done. We chased him,” one of the survivors said.
Gu was stopped by the other three teenagers. He tried to flee again but was only 230m from the scene of the accident when his car broke down.
The teenagers stopped him and demanded he hand over his mobile phone so they could call the police, but Gu refused.
A parent of one of the children then flagged down a truck and borrowed the driver’s mobile phone to reach the police.
A colleague of Gu arrived at the scene in an official post office vehicle and tried to take him away but was prevented from doing so by furious local residents.
China launched a crackdown on drunk drivers in recent months, even sentencing to death several drivers who killed pedestrians or cyclists.
The most notorious recent accident occurred in October on a campus in northern Hebei province, in which the son of a local police official killed a young woman as she was roller-skating and badly injured another.

When campus security officers tried to stop him, the man dared them to detain him, shouting, “Sue me if you can ... my dad is Li Gang.” That scandal transfixed a public increasingly hostile to nepotism and abuse of power.

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