Chapter 356 - Car Accident Liability
Chapter 356 of "City's Best Divine Doctor" introduces new challenges: Butcher He was rushed to the entrance of Jiangbei First Peopleâs Hospital by the ambulance,... Keep following!
Butcher He was rushed to the entrance of Jiangbei First Peopleâs Hospital by the ambulance, then hurried into the emergency room by the paramedics and a female nurse for urgent medical treatment.
The traffic officer came over first and asked the doctors inside to draw blood from this patient for testing to see if there was any evidence of drunk driving.
Soon, the doctors discovered that the alcohol concentration in this accident victimâs blood was already over eighty milligrams per one hundred milliliters, clearly indicating drunk driving behavior.
Normally, if a person drinks two bottles of beer, they are considered to be driving under the influence, and more than three bottles is definitely drunk driving.
Butcher He had drunk three bottles of beer himself, then rode his motorcycle straight into the dump truck, clearly an act of drunk driving.
In another aspect, it was now concluded that Butcher He had also been driving in the wrong direction.
Under such circumstances, regardless of whether Butcher He died, eighty percent of the responsibility would fall on him.
The dump truck driver, at most, could be accused of overloading.
The traffic officer quickly recorded these details, making it quite clear how the matter should be handled fairly and justly between the parties involved.
Li Lanfang and He Xiaoqing hurried to the entrance of Jiangbei First Peopleâs Hospital on an electric scooter.
As Li Lanfang got off the scooter, her expression was extremely grim.
Upon entering the hospital lobby, she yelled loudly.
âHusband, husband, how are you?â
Many patients looked over, assuming from Li Lanfangâs distress that her husband might have died.
The hospital, being a public place where patients needed rest, especially at this quiet hour of early dawn, attracted the attention of other patients coming in and out when they heard Li Lanfangâs coarse, hoarse voice shouting.
A female nurse rushed over and said, âMadam, please donât shout so loudly as it might disturb the other patients.â
Li Lanfang, covering her mouth, asked, âNurse, do you know which room my husband is in?â
âWhat is the patientâs name?â
asked the female nurse.
âMy dad was just brought in because of a traffic accident,â
said He Xiaoqing.
âJust brought in from a traffic accident?
Heâs in the emergency room, you can go find him there.â
Guided by the nurse, Li Lanfang and He Xiaoqing hurried to an emergency room in the hospital where Butcher He was still undergoing emergency treatment.
His condition was very serious.
He was riding a motorcycle at over fifty kilometers per hour at the time of the collision, and the speed of the dump truck was even higher.
Furthermore, Butcher He and his motorcycle plunged directly under the truck.
Severely trapped between the motorcycle and the dump truck, Butcher He was thrown from the bike and struck by it.
The strength of the impact at the time he was thrown out was also difficult to estimate.
The emergency doctors and the female nurse found Butcher He to be in severe condition, with a serious concussion leading to unconsciousness and bleeding from head and brain injuries.
Both legs were crushed under the wheels of the dump truck and his thigh bones completely shattered; the doctors were temporarily uncertain about the severity of the bone fragmentation.
As for his hands and chest, they had been burned by the high heat of the motorcycleâs exhaust, which appeared to be quite serious as well.
Concerning internal injuries, the rapid impact with the dump truck caused internal bleeding when he was thrown to the ground.
As the emergency doctors and female nurse were treating him inside, Li Lanfang and He Xiaoqing had already arrived.
The traffic officer was still waiting there for the patientâs family.
When the traffic officer saw a mother and daughter approaching, he asked, âAre you the patientâs family?â
Li Lanfang was startled to see the traffic police here and asked, âIs my husband being treated inside?â
âIs it the motorcycle driver?â
âYes, itâs him.â
Li Lanfang said.
However, before the officer could speak, Li Lanfang immediately said, âOfficer, that dump truck driver hit my husband so badly, quickly have someone arrest him.â
Upon hearing this, the young traffic officer wanted to laugh internally, but he knew that common people like them didnât understand the law and vehicles, thinking that whoever crashed into whom and whoever was more seriously injured, that the other party bore the greatest responsibility.
âWhereâs your husbandâs driverâs license?
Go get it and show me now?â
âWha-, what driverâs license?â
For people like He the Butcher, they never had a driverâs license.
Initially, he just learned to ride a motorcycle and bought one directly, then found connections to get a license plate for it, and that was it, no driverâs license at all.
Li Lanfang was at a loss, where could she find a driverâs license to show the officer?
âThe motorcycle driving license!â
The young traffic officer insisted.
âThis, thisâŚâ
As Li Lanfang stammered, the young officer had already guessed that the patient inside was definitely one of the âblack five categoriesââdriving without a license.
If that was the case, this traffic accident was more the fault of the motorcycle driver.
âAuntie, if your husband doesnât have a motorcycle driverâs license and drove without one, and considering he drank so much alcohol, during the examination it was found he was severely drunk driving, the responsibility for this accident falls on your husband himself, the dump truck driver isnât very much involved.â
âWhat?
How is this possible?
Isnât it the dump truck driver who hit my husband?â
Li Lanfang had not expected such a severe outcome, she had hoped to demand compensation from the dump truck driver for her husband, not willing to let it go without getting millions.
How could it be otherwise?
âAccording to the testimony of customers at the scene, it was your husband who rode against traffic and collided with the dump truck himself,â
the young traffic officer explained.
Back at the three-way intersection, with so many people watching, everyone saw He the Butcher riding his motorcycle straight into the middle of the road, heading directly towards the dump truck.
Upon hearing this, Li Lanfang collapsed to the ground crying out loud, âWhat now?
If someone dies, donât they compensate?â
âMom, Dad is still receiving treatment inside,â
He Xiaoqing said.
But Li Lanfang did not heed He Xiaoqing, continuing to sit outside the emergency room ward, shouting and crying like a shrew.
She had thought that with He the Butcher being hit so severely by the dump truck, even if he didnât die, it could cause the dump truck driver to pay millions, ensuring a life free of financial worries.
Yet now, with He the Butcher being drunk driving, driving without a license, and even driving the wrong way, it seemed the greatest responsibility for the accident lay with him.
When Li Lanfang realized the dump truck driver might not compensate them at all, she was stunned.