Drunk driving(醉驾) has become a serious problem in China. According to the Ministry of Public Security(公安部) , the police caught more than half a million drunk drivers in 2010. On the night of May 9, 2011, musician Gao Xiaosong ran his car into three other cars in Beijing because he drank too much{1} . He was {2} under China' s new drunk driving law that came into use on May 1, 2011. The new law sees drunk driving as a {3} . In the west, drunk driving is also a crime. In the US, for example, if the police catch a drunk driver, the driver will pay a {4} , lose his or her {5} and even go to prison(监狱) . If the driver wants to drive again, he or she has to do public service, and take part in educational programs. You may think: drunk driving is crime? Isn' t this law too unkind? But experts say: not at all. They think it is to protect people' s tights to life and health. Drunk driving is very dangerous!