Appeal likely against driver's life sentence

BEIJING - Chen Jia, a high-profile drunken driver, was given a life sentence on Friday for killing two people and injuring two others in a traffic accident in Beijing last year.

The Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court convicted 31-year-old Chen of endangering public safety after he drove above the speed limit when drunk, ran into a car and killed two people in the vehicle, and later fled the scene.

The verdict said Chen, driving his black Infiniti, ran a red light and collided with a white Fiat and then a bus at 5:35 am at an intersection in Beijing on May 9, 2010.