Drunk driving rear-end collision: suspended sentence

Background

While driving under the influence, our client crashed into a car stopped ahead, and its driver was injured. The collision was serious enough to badly damage our client's car, and our client was charged with drunk driving and causing injury under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents.

Issues and ruling

The court treated the scale of the accident as an aggravating factor. However, it also considered that, although no settlement was reached, our client had comprehensive insurance and deposited 5 million won with the court for the victim before sentencing, and that the injury was relatively minor.

Outcome

The court imposed one year of imprisonment suspended for two years, so our client avoided actual imprisonment. A 40-hour law-abiding driving course was also ordered.

This is the outcome of an individual case and does not guarantee the same result in similar matters. Some facts have been generalized to protect the parties involved.