BEIJING: A Chinese truck driver was fined 2.7 million yuan - 100 years' average income for city dwellers - and jailed for three years after his overloaded vehicle caused a bridge to collapse, reports said Thursday.
Zhang Wenjun's sand-laden lorry weighed 160 tonnes when he tried to cross a concrete bridge in Huairou on the outskirts of Beijing and the structure gave way, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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