An intoxicated college student driver fatally struck three pedestrians in downtown Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Feb 2, Nanguo Morning Post reported.

Two men, including a renowned playwright, and a woman died at the scene, confirmed by the city's traffic bureau on Tuesday afternoon.

Liu Chang, the driver and student at Sichuan Normal University, was driving a Toyota SUV while drunk on Fengxi road at 1:00 am, when he knocked down the three pedestrians. Sobriety tests showed he had 149.36 mg of alcohol for 100 ml of blood, well above China's 80mg threshold of drunk driving. He was also injured in the accident and was receiving medical treatment at a hospital under police supervision. Police said Liu was also speeding.

Two other people were in the car, both badly intoxicated, one at 153mg and the other at 289.89mg.

The newspaper revealed that Liu's father is a judge at Xiangshan District People's Court in the city.

Yang Geping, 56, one of the victims, is the country's leading Gui opera (a type of Guangxi opera) dramatist. He's known for his work Da Ru Huan Xiang (A Famous Scholar Returns Home).