True or False?

The other day here, I linked to an article that claimed that in China, if a motorist accidentally injures a pedestrian, that motorist will often then try to kill the pedestrian because there's less penalty that way. Pretty horrifying, huh? If it's true, it sure is. Some questions have been raised as to how true it is and since I linked to the original piece, I thought I should link to this discussion of the article's veracity.