North carolina fatal car accident

Nguyen Thi Nga, 46, has been charged with "violating road traffic regulations" which carries punishment of between three and 10 years under Vietnam’s Penal Code, Binh Thanh District prosecutors said. Nga is now under house arrest. Nga, a restaurant owner, was reportedly speeding on Dien Bien Phu Street when she lost control and crashed her BMW into five motorbikes waiting at the Hang Xanh intersection traffic lights at around 11 p.m. on October 21. The car only came to a halt after ramming into a taxi. A 38-year-old woman died immediately and five others were injured.  Tests showed alcohol content of 0.94 milligrams per liter in her blood. The alcohol level allowed for car drivers in Vietnam is zero, and for motorbike drivers up to 0.25 milligrams per liter. She has reportedly admitted to the police that she had drunk a lot of beer earlier that night. After the accident, Nga gave VND150 million ($6,400) to the dead victim's family as support for funeral services and … [Read more...] about Saigon driver in fatal car crash faces 10 years in jail

By Hai Duyen  &nbspApril 10, 2019 | 10:17 am GMT+7 The 41-year-old American man Shane Denoon was sentenced to three years in jail for causing a deadly traffic accident in Saigon last January. Photo by VnExpress/Hai Duyen The HCMC court Tuesday sentenced an American man to three years in prison for causing a traffic accident that killed a woman. Shane Denoon, 41, violated road traffic regulations and caused a deadly accident, the court ruled. According to the indictment, Denoon was driving a motorbike on Nguyen Van Troi Street in Phu Nhuan District on January 27 this year when he crashed into a female cyclist traveling in front of him. The woman fell off the road and died later from serious brain injuries. Investigators said Denoon did not have a valid driving license and had drunk a lot of beer before causing the accident.   Shane told the court that he didn’t remember what happened. When he woke up, he was already in the hospital. Road crashes are a … [Read more...] about American man gets three years in jail for fatal Saigon accident

By Hai Duyen  &nbspApril 10, 2019 | 10:17 am GMT+7 The 41-year-old American man Shane Denoon was sentenced to three years in jail for causing a deadly traffic accident in Saigon last January. Photo by VnExpress/Hai Duyen The HCMC court Tuesday sentenced an American man to three years in prison for causing a traffic accident that killed a woman. Shane Denoon, 41, violated road traffic regulations and caused a deadly accident, the court ruled. According to the indictment, Denoon was driving a motorbike on Nguyen Van Troi Street in Phu Nhuan District on January 27 this year when he crashed into a female cyclist traveling in front of him. The woman fell off the road and died later from serious brain injuries. Investigators said Denoon did not have a valid driving license and had drank a lot of beer before causing the accident.   Shane told the court that he didn’t remember what happened. When he woke up, he was already in the hospital. Road crashes are a … [Read more...] about American man gets 3 years in jail for fatal Saigon accident

Vu Van Dao, 48, and Dinh Van Quyet, 36, former directors of Viet Sec Technology JSC. and Vung Tau Marina JSC. respectively, were given three-year suspended sentences for "allowing the use of unsafe waterborne vehicles." Despite the serious consequence of the defendants' crime, they were given suspended sentences because of multiple mitigating factors, including good background, active cooperation with authorities and proactive compensation provided to the victims' families, the court said. According to the indictment, Dao's company produced boats made of polypropylene carbonate (PPC) despite Vietnam not having any standard for the design and registration of such vehicles. In March 2013, his company signed contracts to sell two boats to the coast guard of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, including boat BP 12-04-02. The boats were anchored at the company's dock, however. In late July that year, a steel pipe factory under oil giant PetroVietnam's subsidiary PV PIPE in the … [Read more...] about Company execs get suspended sentences for fatal boat accident in HCMC

The boat was carrying 55 people along the Musi river when it was hit by a large wave and sank amid bad weather on January 3, South Sumatra water police chief Robinson Siregar said.He said the police were still searching for the captain. Meanwhile, his assistant has been detained for questioning to find out whether or not the boat was seaworthy or there was negligence by the crew.It was the latest deadly maritime accident in the Indonesian archipelago, which relies heavily on boats to ferry people around its 17,000 islands. On New Year's Day, at least nine people died after a passenger boat capsized when traveling from the city of Tarakan to Tanjung Selor on Borneo island. Vietnamplus … [Read more...] about Indonesia: 13 dead in second fatal boat accident in a week