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Yesterday (10th) A 2nd grade elementary school child who was crossing a pedestrian crossing on the back road was hit by a drinking car and died. There was a similar accident before and it was not far from the school but was not designated as a child protection area.

I'm TJB Choi Eun-ho.

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moment a boy enters the pedestrian crossing, the black SUV is covered.

The child who was hit by a car was in grade A in elementary school in Seosan.
After bringing his younger brother to a daycare center, he went to school alone and was accidentally killed.

The blood alcohol level of the accident driver 60-year-old B is 0.031%, which is the level of license suspension.

He was a so-called hangover driver who said he drank three makgeolli at home the day before.

The accident occurred only 150 meters from the school.

It was used mainly by students in the nearby apartment complex as a school road.

There is no traffic light on the right-handed pedestrian crossing leading to Traffic Island, and the speed of the vehicles is low, so the man in his 50s was hit by a drunk vehicle two years ago.

In particular, there is a current law that can designate a school road within 300 meters of the school gate as a child protection area, or school zone, but the accident site was excluded from the school zone due to heavy traffic.

Parents insist that there was traffic guidance from police officers at the accident point, but somehow, after school, traffic guidance disappeared.

[Lee Jung-lim/Parent Chairman of A-A School: A big or small accident occurs once or twice a year. That's why I tend to ask the police department for support.]

After the school started in earnest, the police reinforced the school zone accident prevention activities, and it was confirmed that traffic information at the accident point was stopped.

(Video coverage: Hwang Yun-sung TJB)