Police mentioned Friday they requested a warrant to arrest a truck driver accused of inflicting a lethal crash in a conventional market close to Seoul the day gone by that killed two folks and injured 19 others.
The accident occurred at Jeil Market in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, late Thursday morning, when the 67-year-old driver’s 1-ton truck plowed by way of the market’s slim passage for greater than 130 meters. Of the 21 casualties, solely two are market distributors, and the remaining 19 are prospects.
The truck was discovered to have reversed 1 to 2 meters earlier than dashing 132 meters down the market passage earlier than coming to a halt, in line with the Bucheon Ojeong Police Station, which filed the arrest warrant request.
Police additionally confirmed by way of the car’s pedal dashcam that the driving force stepped on the accelerator pedal as a substitute of the brake pedal on the time of the accident.
The motive force is understood to have suffered from persistent ailments, together with moyamoya, a uncommon mind dysfunction, however he reportedly claimed that his illnesses don’t have anything to do with driving and don’t intervene with driving in any respect.
Police suspect that the accident was doubtless attributable to the driving force’s misoperation of the pedals, quite than by sudden acceleration. The arrest warrant listening to is scheduled to be held at a Bucheon court docket Saturday, police mentioned.
