Angela Tong officially charged for Drinking & Driving and Careless driving Earlier Angela Tong was arrested by the police for drunk driving. Yesterday the police officially prosecuted her for drunk driving and for careless driving, making a total of two charges. On the 23rd of this month, her case will be held on trial. Under the law, convicted of drinking and driving will leave marks under one's criminal record. The convicted will be fined and could be as serious as being imprisoned. Yesterday Angela held a press conference and expressed that at this period of time she cannot comment on the case. The incident happened last year on November 30th, at 11'o clock in the evening, Angela was driving her private car in Sai Kung near a traffic light, because there were doubts on the breaks she "fired" towards the motorcycle who was in front of them, the male motorcyclist and his female passenger were injured and sent to the hospital. When the police arrived, they requested Angela to do a "ball blowing" alcohol test. It was discovered that there was 97 micrograms of alcohol content in her breath, which is over 3 times. Police arrested her as they suspected her for drinking and driving. The case was investigated for two months by the Kowloon East Traffic Police Department. Yesterday Angela reported to the Police and was offically charged for drinking and driving. According to the Traffic Ordinance, the first offense of drinking and driving maximum fine is HKD$1 million and up to 6 months in prison. If the offense is repeated, HKD$25,000 is fined and up to 12 months imprisonment. Careless driving can be fined HKD$5000 and be imprison for 6 months. Legal worker Wong Kwok Tung expressed that drinking and driving is a criminal offense and will leave marks on your criminal records. The court will look for the level of drunk-ness, driving attitude, if you had any traffic offenses in the past and how serious the accident was before sentencing the suspect. The consequences ranges from fined to do community service and then re-imprisonment. Source: The Sun Translated by: aZnangel @ ***
I am sure she gonna get off .. probably do some community service or so. She's a public figure even though she had sent the wrong message to the public with her action.
