A woman has been handed a 3.5-year jail sentence for endangering public safety after she grabbed the steering wheel of a bus as it was in motion, a Shanghai court ruled Thursday.

The defendant, surnamed Liang, had boarded the No. 783 bus on Dec. 4, 2018, in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area. After missing her stop, she asked the driver to open the door but refused to get off when he did so. At the behest of some annoyed passengers, the driver resumed driving — and Liang grabbed the steering wheel, causing the bus to veer left into a construction vehicle. No casualties resulted from the incident.

In October of last year, an altercation between a passenger and a driver in the southwestern city of Chongqing led to a public bus careening off a bridge and into a river, killing everyone onboard. Following the widely discussed case, the Supreme People’s Court issued a notice in January saying that passengers who “grab the steering wheel or gear shift, or hit or grab the driver” on public transport are guilty of endangering public safety. Under the regulation, a women in the southern province of Hainan was sentenced in May 2019 to four years in prison for slapping a bus driver over a disputed fare. (Image: 上海一中法院 on WecChat)