Daughter Tragedy in Front of Mother... Drunk Man Driving Against Traffic Crashes Head-On While Parents Were Helping and Leaving Work

Black box footage capturing the scene of a wrong-way driving vehicle accident in Yangjeong Tunnel, Geoje City. [Image source=Gyeongnam Police Agency]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] A drunk driver driving in the wrong direction collided with two vehicles driven by a mother and daughter in succession, resulting in the daughter's death.

On the 23rd, the Geoje Police Station in Gyeongnam announced that they had arrested a man in his 30s, A, on charges of causing death and injury due to dangerous driving under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes.

A is accused of driving his K7 vehicle under the influence of alcohol and driving in the wrong direction through the Yangjeong Tunnel in Geoje City at around 1:45 a.m. on the 15th, colliding consecutively with an Accent and a Genesis vehicle coming from the opposite direction.

As a result of the accident, B, a woman in her 20s driving the Accent, died, and C, a woman in her 40s driving the Genesis, sustained minor injuries.

According to the police, the victims were mother and daughter; the daughter, B, originally worked in Seoul but came down to Geoje due to the COVID-19 situation to help with the family business run by her parents.

On the day of the accident, the family was working together; the father left home first, and only the mother and daughter remained to close up. After finishing, they were each driving their own cars home. Although the Accent vehicle was owned by the father, it was investigated that B was driving it that day.

A, who caused the accident, was found to have driven about 2 km in the wrong direction from a sports field in Geoje Ajudong to the accident site.

The police collected blood samples from A at the accident scene and sent them to the National Forensic Service, which confirmed that the blood alcohol concentration was at the level warranting license cancellation.

A police official said, "The perpetrator A is also seriously injured and hospitalized. Once he recovers, we plan to investigate the exact circumstances of the accident and then decide whether to apply for an arrest warrant."

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