When both parties reached a mediation agreement, the defendant actively compensated and obtained the victim’s understanding. The court may consider a lighter punishment when sentencing. ?
Article 133 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" Whoever violates traffic and transportation management regulations and thus causes a major accident, causing serious injury or death or causing heavy losses to public or private property, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years Or criminal detention; those who escape after a traffic accident or have other particularly serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; those who escape and cause death shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.