Like the STRICT rules against, DRUNK-DRIVING??? Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The man, Ke got behind the wheels after getting high on substance, had a crash, flew out of his car, and he’d still, fell sound asleep by the side of the road afterwards, the courts charged him on public endangerment, sentenced him to three months. In actuality however, there are, only a handful of cases for driving while abusing substances, the legal advisors stated, that compared to the clear-cut rules for drunk-driving, there is only the criteria of “seemingly in a daze, and a crash that’s happened, along with some other facts, then, there’s the burden of proofs of “not being able to operate a vehicle safely” for the charges to stick.
The D.A. investigated, Ke (age 50) had abused heroin, amphetamine at his own home on May 10th of this year, in the early evening, he rode his scooter past the Mingshen Road and Guanwen Street intersections, he couldn’t react fast enough, and rammed into the motorist, Lee who was waiting ahead of him for the red light to turn green; Ke claimed that his crashing into the motorist has nothing to do with his abusing drugs, but Lee said, after Ke hit her, he’d fallen to the pavement, she couldn’t wake him as she’d tried to.
As the police arrived, Ke fell into a deep sleep, and, the officers conducted the sobriety test, having him walk in a straight line, he couldn’t, as they took an urine sample, which showed positive. The courts believed, that Ke was high and in a daze as he impacted the other motorist, caused danger on the roads, and had, impacted public safety, and sentenced him to three months on public endangerment.
The senior district attorney pointed out, that it is, quite difficult to find the evidence for driving while getting high on substances, it isn’t like the drunk-driving where there’s the breathalyzer test, or the blood draws, only based off of observation of the driver, the urine tests, can it be confirmed, if the driver was high on substances, and if there’s no accidental impact, then, it would be even more difficult, to convict the drivers or the motorists on charges of driving while high on substances.
The attorney, Fang explained, that the cores of public endangerment charges such as drunk driving or driving while getting high lies in “the inability to operate a vehicle safely”, and public endangerment is a dangerous charge, the inability to follow the safety rules on the road, that, is why the country had set these laws up.
And so, unlike the sobriety test, walking in a straight line, etc., etc., etc., there’s, NOT that clear-cut a set of criteria for determining if the person is under the influence of illegal substances, and this is something that the government need to work on, to set up a clear-cut rule, a set of criteria for the law enforcement officials to follow, to determine if someone is high and may cause dangers on the roads.