Legal basis
"Chinese People's **** and the Criminal Law of the State" Article 133
Violation of the regulations on the management of transportation, and thus major accidents, resulting in serious injuries, deaths, or so that the public and private property suffered major losses, shall be sentenced to less than three years' fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention; hit-and-run traffic accidents or other particularly bad circumstances, shall be sentenced to three years' fixed-term imprisonment or detention; transportation hit-and-run or have other particularly bad circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years; if a person dies as a result of fleeing, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.
Supreme People's Court on the trial of criminal cases of traffic collision on the specific application of the law of the Interpretation of Article 2
Traffic collision with one of the following circumstances, shall be sentenced to less than three years' fixed-term imprisonment or detention:
(a) the death of a person or serious injury to more than three people, responsible for all the accidents or the main responsibility;
(b) more than three deaths, equally responsible for the accident;
(b) more than three deaths, the same responsibility for the accident (C) causing direct loss of public **** property or other people's property, is responsible for the accident or the main responsibility, incapable of compensation amounting to more than 300,000 yuan.