8 people seriously injured in Drunk Driving, former women's handball national team given suspended sentence = South Korea

A handball player from the national Olympic team who was brought to court on suspicion of driving a car while intoxicated and injuring multiple citizens has been sentenced to a suspended sentence in the first trial.
According to the legal community on the 6th, Seoul Eastern District Criminal Justice 4Exclusive Chief Judge Lee Min-ji judged Mr. Kim (24), who was indicted on suspicion of violating the Road Traffic Act (Drunk Driving) and the Traffic Accident Handling Special Act (Deathful Injury).
He was sentenced to one year in prison and suspended for three years. Kim was also ordered to complete 80 hours of driving lessons and 40 hours of community service. Mr. Kim was killed at around 11:00 pm on February 25th last year in Songpa, Seoul.
He was handed over to court on charges of driving a car while intoxicated, about 3 kilometers from Bangi-dong in the district to an alley in Jamsil-dong.
In this accident, one pedestrian in his 20s suffered serious injuries that required eight weeks to recover, and the remaining seven people, including a man in his 80s who was pulling a waste paper trolley, sustained minor injuries.
. The victims reportedly received treatment for as long as eight weeks and as short as two weeks. Judge Lee pointed out, ``One of the victims was seriously injured, and the other victims also suffered physical and mental pain.''
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"We took into consideration the fact that there were no victims, and that a certain amount of money was deposited in criminal deposits for the remaining victims," the statement said. Kim will represent the national women's handball team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
At the time of the accident, the team he belonged to was known as Samcheok City Hall.