Chinese policeman accused of drink-driving after car ploughs into crowd
- Six people injured, two seriously, after incident on Friday night in Wuhan
A prison police officer is being investigated on suspicion of drink-driving after a car ploughed into a crowd of people in central China on Friday night, local media reported.
The officer, surnamed Xu, was behind the wheel at the time of the incident in which six people were injured, two of them seriously, according to Chutian Metropolis Daily.
According to eyewitness reports, the car scraped against two parked cars before skidding into a group of seven people who were sitting eating snacks at the side of the road in the Qiaokou district of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.
A store owner told the newspaper that after the car came to a halt a man wearing a police officer’s uniform got out to inspect the damage.
One of the people injured, a man surnamed Peng, said he saw the car travelling at speed before it crashed.
