Article 133 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever violates traffic laws and regulations, resulting in a major accident, causing serious injury, death or heavy losses to public or private property, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; Whoever escapes after a traffic accident or has other particularly bad circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; Whoever escapes and causes death shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.

Article 2 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Traffic Accidents stipulates that a traffic accident shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention under any of the following circumstances:

(a) one person died or more than three people were seriously injured, and they were fully or mainly responsible for the accident;

(2) An accident in which three or more people died and were equally responsible;

(3) Causing direct losses to public property or other people's property, and being wholly or mainly responsible for the accident, and being unable to compensate for the amount of more than 300,000 yuan.

If a traffic accident causes serious injuries to more than one person, and bears all or the main responsibility for the accident, and has one of the following circumstances, he shall be convicted and punished for the crime of traffic accident:

(a) driving a motor vehicle after drinking or taking drugs;

(2) Driving a motor vehicle without driving qualification;

(three) driving a motor vehicle knowing that the safety device is incomplete or the safety components are out of order;

(4) Driving with knowledge of unlicensed or scrapped motor vehicles;

(five) serious overload driving;

(six) to escape from the scene of the accident in order to escape legal investigation.