Bus Collides While Avoiding Wrong-Way Vehicle... 50s Cargo Truck Driver Dies

A truck driver died after colliding with a bus that made an emergency stop to avoid a car driving in the wrong direction.

According to the Hamyang Police Station in Gyeongnam on the 29th, at around 12:55 PM that day, a passenger car driven by a man in his 80s entered the wrong way on National Route 3, 500 meters toward Geochang from the entrance to Yongchu Valley in Anui-myeon, Hamyang-gun.

Seeing this, a male express bus driver in his 30s urgently applied the brakes, and a 9.5-ton truck following behind crashed into the vehicle ahead.

As a result of the accident, the occupants of the passenger car and the bus sustained minor injuries, but the truck driver, a man in his 50s, passed away.

There were four people in the passenger car, including the driver, and it was confirmed that none of them had been drinking.

The express bus, which made the emergency stop, was carrying one driver and seven passengers.

The police are investigating the exact circumstances of the accident, including the reason for the wrong-way driving.

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