Officials pay respects to officer killed chasing drunk driver / 追緝酒駕女警殉職 內政部長赴靈堂致哀
On November 1, Taoyuan city police officer Chen Ming-hui suffered serious head injuries in a car crash while chasing a drunk driver. She was pronounced dead on November 4 after three days of emergency treatment. On November 5, Interior Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong and National Police Administration Director General Chen Kuo-en paid tribute to the officer at a funeral hall. Chen's sister criticized the light punishment for drunk-driving on her Facebook, asking President Tsai Ing-wen to address the problem. After three days of emergency treatment, Chen Ming-hui, a police officer in Taoyuan, was pronounced dead on November 4. The 31-year-old officer's police car crashed while pursuing a drunk driver, causing her to suffer serious head injuries. Her death has prompted people to call on the government to impose harsher penalties on those who are convicted of drink-driving. Chen's sister said that the punishment for drink driving was so lenient in Taiwan that it does not have a deterrent effect. Chen's mother urged President Tsai Ing-wen to address the problem. ==MRS.CHEN Chen Min-hui's mother== Yesterday, when I was back home, Chen's sister told me that the punishment for drink driving is too lenient in Taiwan. Therefore, no one seems to take drink-driving seriously. Chen Min-hsiang, the founder of the Taiwan Against Drunk Driving association who lost her daughter due to a drink driving accident three years ago, also thinks that heavier sentences are necessary to prevent such accidents. Under the current law, drink-driving offenders can get off with only paying fines up to NT$90,000, which means nothing to most offenders. Chen suggested that the government should make offenders take life education courses, such as visiting mortuaries, and lying in mortuaries, to deter repeat offenses. ==CHEN MIN-HSIANG, Director of TADD == What do people look when they die in an accident? What is it like to be in the mortuary? Maybe working in a mortuary and even helping to wash the bodies can teach these drink-driving offenders a lesson. Civil groups urged legislators to propose amendments to the Criminal Code. They asked those who are in the same car with the drunk driver to take joint liability. They also advised the government to enhance public education on drink-driving to avoid such tragedies. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH 因為追捕酒駕，車禍、傷重不治的，桃園女警陳明慧、遺體被送往板橋殯儀館。而內政部長葉俊榮、以及警政署長陳國恩，今天上午，到靈堂、拈香致哀。陳明慧的姊姊，在臉書上痛批，認為現行酒駕的，罰則太輕，希望總統蔡英文，面對這個問題。 經過三天搶救，因追緝酒駕而撞車昏迷的桃園市女警陳明慧，週五晚間仍不治死亡，遺體運送車隊行經她任職的派出所時，全體同仁列隊送別，而她的離世，也讓大家重新省思酒駕肇事的問題，陳明慧的姊姊在臉書上痛批，台灣法律對於酒駕的罰則太輕，對酒駕人來說根本不痛不癢，而母親也向蔡總統請命，要政府面對酒駕問題。 ==桃園殉職女警陳明慧媽媽== 所以她姊姊昨天 我回去啊 她就說 因為我們國家 好像酒駕都沒有很重罰 所以大家都不怕啊 同樣也曾也深受酒駕肇事者所害、前台大醫師曾御慈的媽媽，感觸特別深，這些年來她化悲憤為力量，組成酒駕防制協會，積極推動酒駕防制，她認為現行酒駕罰鍰最高9萬元，根本起不了作用，建議政府讓酒駕者參與生命教育體驗課程，包括參訪停屍間、試躺停屍床等，才能遏阻酒駕者再犯。 ==台灣酒駕防制關懷協會理事長 陳敏香== 人死以後是什麼樣子 你在停屍間 你的感覺 或者是讓你去幫忙 是有建議說 洗一下人家的遺體 此外民間團體也將促請立法院修法，將酒駕共同責任入法，也就是酒駕者同車乘客，要負連帶責任，同時也建議政府，要從小加強公民教育，尊重自己與他人的生命，不讓悲劇再發生。 記者 賴淑敏 蔣龍祥 陳昌維 台北報導
