Recently, the Overseas Chinese News reported that drunk driving has been repeatedly banned. In China, drunk driving may face criminal detention and fines. For international students in the United States, the serious consequences caused by drunk driving will bring irreparable regret to their study career.
In the United States, one third of the casualties in traffic accidents are caused by drunk driving. The drunk driver had drunk 80 times on average before he was arrested for the first time. 50%-75% of drunk drivers continue to driving without a license after their licenses are revoked. The average age of drunk drivers is 2 1-24 years old.
It is understood that the punishment for drunk driving in the United States is quite serious. As long as they are caught, they will face imprisonment and huge fines, and international students may also face the danger of being repatriated.
On the evening of March 6th 1 1, 2065438, a China student studying at Buffalo State University in new york was arrested for drunk driving.
He spent the night at the police station and was released the next day. The court asked him to appear in court on April 2 1, but his appearance was postponed due to the arrangement of his lawyer.
However, the student received a notice from the US Consulate in Shenyang on April 26th, which stated that his visa F 1 was revoked.
Tang, a lawyer in China, said that although the student still has the opportunity to get an F/KLOC-0 visa again and study in the United States legally, he should deal with the drunk driving case first. Because in the United States, the consequences of being caught drunk driving can not be ignored.
Drunk driving was arrested and imprisoned.
Coincidentally, another China student was severely punished for drunk driving in the United States, and even sent to an immigration prison.
On May 22nd, 20 16, this China female student and her friends had a dinner in Flushing, and they drank a lot of wine at the dinner table. After the party, she drove home and hit a car on the way, damaging another car. Under the victim's alarm, the police who came to do the alcohol test for the female student found on the spot that the numerical value was seriously exceeded, so she was taken back to the police station.
After further examination, the police found that her student visa had already expired and it was illegal to stay. So the police quickly transferred her to the immigration prison after dealing with her drunk driving behavior. It is reported that the female student originally went to school in the United States with a student visa, but the visa was not renewed or updated after it expired.
A Chinese lawyer surnamed Sun in new york said that although drunk driving is not necessarily related to identity, and according to the current policy in new york, as long as the parties have not violated the law, the police generally do not ask the identity of the parties when enforcing the law. However, because the student was drunk and crashed, the consequences were serious, and law enforcement officers could check his identity.
The fact that female students are now sent to immigration prisons shows the seriousness of the problem. Therefore, even if a student is only convicted of a criminal misdemeanor in the future, he is in danger of being deported.
Drunk driving was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In the first two cases, because there were no casualties, the punishment was relatively light. Once there are casualties, the punishment is not only repatriation and detention, but also life imprisonment.
On July 24th, 20 15, Zhou Taogang, an overseas student from China, came out of a nightclub and drunk and drove a white two-door Porsche on the road. As a result, he collided with a Toyota car at the intersection of Rosmead Avenue and Granton Road, and then the two cars collided with other vehicles, resulting in the death of a 46-year-old Hispanic woman on the Toyota car and six injuries. Zhou Tao himself suffered a head injury.
The police confirmed that Zhou Tao was drunk driving at the time of the accident, so he was charged with serious negligence of drunk driving, which led to the death of others. Bail is $500,000, and he faces at least 15 years' imprisonment or even life imprisonment.
Moreover, because Zhou Tao was only 20 years old at that time and did not reach the legal drinking age of 2 1 year in the United States, it was illegal to drink alcohol under any circumstances. This is no longer the reason why he was accused of serious negligence in drunk driving and caused death. His bail is $500,000, and he faces at least 15 years of imprisonment, even life imprisonment.
Moreover, because Zhou Tao was only 20 years old at that time and did not reach the legal drinking age of 2 1 year in the United States, it was illegal to drink alcohol under any circumstances.
This is not the first time that Zhou Tao got into trouble because of drunk driving. He disclosed on the social networking site in June 20 14 that his driver's license had been revoked for one year. At that time, he showed his driver's license online and wrote: "Because the driver's license that was revoked after drunk driving came back, I opened champagne to celebrate. I am very glad that driving without a license was arrested in the year I was waiting, met a good policeman and let me go. "
Serious consequences of drunk driving in the United States
The United States is the country with the largest number of cars in the world, with one car per capita and the most thorough integration of cars into life.
The way to deal with drunk driving is: anyone whose blood alcohol content exceeds 0.05% will be regarded as drunk driving. If it is a first-time offender, his driver's license will be revoked for one year, and he will be fined 250-400 dollars and imprisoned for six months.
If you are caught for the second time, you will be fined twice, your driver's license will be revoked for two years and you will be imprisoned for one year. In addition to being fined and investigated for criminal responsibility, drunk drivers will be sent to hospitals as nurses for several days to take care of the victims of traffic accidents, or watch a horrible documentary about traffic accidents, and some will even be sent to morgues to let them visit the victims of traffic accidents, so as to warn the world not to drink and drive.
After the drunk driver is sent to the detention center, he needs to pay a large amount of bail, as well as expensive towing, parking and fines. We have to ask a lawyer to go to court, and the visible cost is about $65,438 +0.3 million. If you can't see it, the insurance company will increase the premium. If the circumstances are serious, detain the vehicle for 6 months or 1 year, and pay the transportation fee again.
In addition, taking California's legal provisions as an example, the relevant departments implement a "zero tolerance" policy for teenagers' drunk driving. If you drink illegally, even if the alcohol concentration in your blood is lower than 0.08%, you will face penalties such as revoking your driver's license for one year, fines, detaining your vehicle and imprisonment.
Drunk driving records will remain in personal files, affecting all aspects of life. Because drunk driving is regarded as a serious act endangering public safety in the United States, people with drunk driving records will also be regarded as people with poor self-control ability. In addition, the US Immigration Service stipulates that you cannot apply for naturalization within 5 years after being sentenced to drunk driving. If you are caught drunk driving in the United States with a tourist visa, it will affect your next entry.
It can be seen that the handling of drunk driving is quite strict. The minimum imprisonment is six months, and recidivism will greatly increase the punishment. In American law, each state has different legal provisions. Let's look at the representative state laws.
In California, when drunk drivers are investigated for the first time, in addition to fines, there will be additional community volunteer services, including sweeping the streets and taking care of the elderly.
And the drunk driving record will be recorded in the personal credit file. If drunk driving is found repeatedly, you will be lucky enough to go to the local morgue to see the on-site autopsies of some dead people and warn the offenders in a bloody and horrible way.
In Missouri, drunk driving is more than three times. In addition to the regular fine, the manager will send the drunk driver to the hospital to take care of the hospitalized traffic accident victims, so that the driver can feel the pain caused by the traffic accident.
In Los Angeles, in addition to being punished, drunk drivers have to pay $300 to install alcohol testing equipment in the car to test the alcohol content in the car. As long as there is alcohol in the car, the car can't run normally, which technically limits those drivers who can't control themselves.
Drunk driving can be repatriated once.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kelly shouted to undocumented immigrants in the United States in July this year that under the Trump administration, even undocumented immigrants with drunk driving records may be repatriated. This not only makes illegal immigrants afraid, but also makes green card holders dare not ignore it.
John Kelly was interviewed by NBC's "Meet the Press" program. When asked what kind of undocumented immigrants might be repatriated, he revealed: "According to Trump's strict immigration law, even if you violate the crime of' driving under the influence of drugs '(DUI), you may be deported."
Kelly pointed out that the United States is a land with laws, and the expulsion order is executed according to national laws, not according to the discretion of immigration officials. He said: "You must remember that there is a legal and judicial system here. The decision to deport was not made by National Security Secretary Kelly, nor by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but by the criminal justice system or judicial system of the United States. "
Lawyers pointed out that usually only one drunk driving is not easy to be repatriated, at most it is a misdemeanor, and usually it involves a felony before being deported. However, don't think that felonies are far away from you. Repeated drunk driving or other illegal acts, such as driving without a license, reckless driving or even hitting people, may be prosecuted for felonies, leading to the fate of deportation.
Drunk driving is a "road killer" that plagues the world. In order to effectively eliminate the scourge of drunk driving, Canada has also taken severe measures.
Canada: Permanent residents can be repatriated.
The important punishment for drunk drivers in Ontario, Canada is similar to that in Los Angeles, but what they want to install is something called "interactive point train lock". What the driver needs to do before driving is to blow air into the instrument. If the alcohol concentration exceeds the specified value, not only will the engine fail to start, but the instrument will also issue an alarm to remind the police and other drivers, which is also a relatively scary punishment.
This set of equipment for monitoring drunk driving will not always be installed in the car, but it depends on the actual repentance of drunk drivers. The first drunk driving only needs to be installed 1 year, but the second drunk driving will be sentenced to three years, and the third one will be installed for life.
In Canada, drunk drivers will be imprisoned for 6 months in addition to high fines; If someone is injured by drunk driving, he will face 10 years imprisonment, and if someone dies, he will face 14 years imprisonment.
After the drunk driver is sent to the detention center, he needs to pay a large amount of bail, as well as expensive towing, parking and fines. In addition, drunk drivers will be sent back to school to study again, and the tuition fee of ICBC drunk driving class is about 800. The most painful thing is that you can't drive for 90 days Some people in the suburbs dare not even think about going to work without a car!
In 20 15, Peter MacKay, the federal attorney general of Canada, submitted the Dangerous and Buffered Driving Act to Congress, and reformed the existing traffic laws again to severely crack down on all kinds of inappropriate driving behaviors, including drunk driving, sentencing and imprisonment. If the federal government finds you accused of drunk driving, your permanent resident status will be revoked and repatriated, and no appeal is allowed!