Driver faces family in court over accident

Relatives sue for compensation after fatal crash on road trip

A driver who was involved in a road smash that killed her younger sister, brother-in-law and niece is being sued for 1.6 million yuan by her relatives.

Tianwen rear-ended a car carrying her sibling's family in a six-vehicle pileup on a Beijing expressway on Oct 2, 2009. The family had been heading to the port city of Tianjin for the National Day holidays.