Drunk China cheat dies in freak fall from lover’s car, wife demands US$82,000
Court orders much lower amount be paid to wife, children of love cheat because his lover did not bear ‘serious responsibility’ for death
The wife of a drunk man in China who was killed when he was thrown out of his lover’s car in an accident has failed in a legal bid to land 600,000 yuan (US$82,000) in compensation.
The man, surnamed Wang, from eastern China’s Jiangsu province, met his lover, surnamed Liu, in 2022 and started an extramarital affair.
On a night in July 2023, a drunk Wang fell out of Liu’s BMW car while Liu was driving, according to a report in the mainland media outlet Hongxing News on December 24.
Liu immediately stopped the car, checked Wang’s condition and called an ambulance. Wang was rushed to the hospital, and declared dead from brain injuries 24 hours later.
A police investigation revealed that the lovers were talking about splitting up before the accident.
Liu first told Wang she wanted to break up, and was rejected. On the night he died, Wang messaged Liu asking her to return the bracelet and SIM card he had bought her.
