Drunk Driver Faces Seven Years

Last week, a drunk driver - whose license was suspended since 2003 - sped through a red light, hit two cars and injured six people, including a 12 year old boy walking to school. Now it turns out driver Jiankai Huang was not only drunk and driving without a license but he was "slapping his 18 year old female companion" - who was sitting the backseat. The companion was seriously injured in the accident, and the Brooklyn DA will be using a new vehicular assault charge for the first time.

"Vehicular Assault in the First Degree" can be charged when two or more people are seriously injured in a vehicular accident involving an intoxicated drive. Huang's victims include his passenger, a 25 year old woman in another car whose pelvis was crushed and the 12 year old year old boy Jackie Kuang who has two broken arms and two broken legs. Kuang suffered a lacerated kidney, which was removed, and his right foot was severed and could not be reattached.

Huang, who was driving his sister's car because his own car was crashed from another drunken incident, faces up to 7 years in jail. The Brooklyn DA expects to add more charges.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 31, 2007 11:03 AM

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S.D.

Besides, his troubles just start with 7 years. I'm sure the Brooklyn DA can get creative and insist on consecutive sentences.

Elderta

hoo dat gurl... the man who shot the two cops... see Gothamist link.

hoo dat gurl

Who got the death penalty last night?

Was anyone killed in that accident/hit and run etc?

Maybe that was one reason. I'm still shocked that there would be a death penalty for vehicular homocide. Are we talking about the drunk Jersey City cop?

mihow

Zac, have you learned nothing from the comments above? Because he's rich and the other dude is poor. Duh.

Zac

Why is this guy any better than the dude that got the death penalty last night? Why does he only get 7 years?

mihow

"Poor people are too tired to be getting drunk behind the wheel. Especially working 16 hour days and then to get up and do it all over again."

There are so many things wrong with that comment I don't even know where to begin.

Kevin Bracken

get him.

shelley belly

Poor people are too tired to be getting drunk behind the wheel. Especially working 16 hour days and then to get up and do it all over again.

Most poor people don't have cars.

The Edge

His last name means absolutely nothing.

Rich or poor -- does it matter? He's a misogynistic alcoholic that should never have been allowed behind the wheel of a car.

And now we have far, far too many people paying for it.

mihow

What the hell does this have to do with being rich or not? Some of you people never cease to amaze me with your totally ignorant commentary.

If he were working 16 hour days at happy garden take out would that change anything? I really don't have any idea what some of you are talking about half the time. Think much?

There is one good thing, however, no one has yet tapped into the typical Gothamist comment cliché.

Yet.

megc

The sister needs to pay for her crime, somehow, along with her brother. Glad to hear of this new vehicular assault charge being put into use.

riche biche

He may not be rich in your eyes but to many he is.

The surname huang is the key.

Let's just say he ain't working in happy garden take out 16 hrs a day.

Better get a tox test on the driver, too. He could also be doing illicit drugs.

J to the D

You don't have to be rich to own a lexus - maybe in 1986 you did. This guy should get 10 years, no parole, just for the kids foot that had to be amputated.

little red book

More rich entititled people thinking they can do whatever they want.

His car was totaled so he borrowed his sister's lexus.

S.D.

Just when you think he couldn't have acted any dumber. I hope they keep piling on the charges as his apparent indifference to others reaches remarkable heights.

His sister will likely end up paying since it was her car.