{"id":7023,"date":"2019-02-02T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/execution-for-chinese-ride-sharing-driver-who-killed-passenger\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T05:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:40:19","slug":"execution-for-chinese-ride-sharing-driver-who-killed-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/execution-for-chinese-ride-sharing-driver-who-killed-passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution for Chinese ride-sharing driver who killed passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"The Didi Chuxing logo\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/42AB\/production\/_103176071_048050512.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Bosses in charge of Didi&#8217;s ride-hailing service were fined after passengers were killed<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Chinese man Zhong Yuan has been sentenced to death for raping and killing a female passenger in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zhong was a driver for Didi Chuxing&#8217;s ride-sharing service Hitch when he committed the crime. <\/p>\n<p>The fatal attack led Didi to suspend Hitch and overhaul the way it vets drivers for the service. <\/p>\n<p>Didi also faced strong criticism from the Chinese government and the public for the way Hitch had been run.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentence on the 28-year-old was announced by a court in Wenzhou. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The criminal means were extremely cruel and the consequences of the crime are extremely serious,&#8221; the court said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The death in August was the second to involve the service and led to executives at Didi Chuxing being fined over the deaths. <\/p>\n<p>In fining the senior managers, the Chinese government said Didi had broken multiple safety rules, presented a &#8220;major safety hazard&#8221; and had failed to properly flag high-risk drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The cases caused a public outcry, led to calls for a boycott of the service and brought about its suspension. The service has not been restarted.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Didi said it had no comment to make on the verdict. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47088159\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Image caption Bosses in charge of Didi&#8217;s ride-hailing service were fined after passengers were killed Chinese man Zhong Yuan has been sentenced to death for raping and killing a female passenger in August 2018. Mr Zhong was a driver for Didi Chuxing&#8217;s ride-sharing service Hitch when he committed the crime. The fatal &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}