How to Deal with Hit-and-Run?
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Hit-and-run cases are handled as follows: 1. If the act does not constitute a crime, the traffic management department of the public security organ may impose an administrative penalty of a fine ranging from 200 to 2,000 yuan, revoke the motor vehicle driver's license, and the offender will be permanently barred from obtaining a motor vehicle driver's license again. 2. If the offender flees after causing a traffic accident and the act constitutes the crime of causing a traffic accident, they will face criminal punishment of imprisonment for not less than three years but not more than seven years. According to Article 133 of the Criminal Law, whoever violates the regulations of traffic control and thus causes a serious accident, resulting in serious injury or death to another person or causing major losses to public or private property, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. Whoever flees after causing a traffic accident or has other especially flagrant circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; if the flight results in the death of another person, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.