On the 16th, around 9:15 AM, a bus from downtown 108 near Ssangmun Station in Changdong, Dobong-gu, headed toward Uijeongbu, crashed across the sidewalk.

In the accident, 18 passengers, including 17 passengers on the bus and 1 driver in a car driving near the bus, were injured and transported to the hospital.

According to fire officials and eyewitnesses, a bus driver crashed into a car he was driving while losing his consciousness at the time of the accident, and was reported to run across the sidewalk to a nearby restaurant building.


Since it was an early time, there were no people inside the restaurant, so no further casualties occurred.

According to the police and others, the bus driver was sent to the hospital in a state of cardiac arrest when the paramedics were dispatched, but is now known to have regained breath and remain unconscious.

Currently, the injured have been taken to a nearby hospital, and the police are investigating the exact cause of the accident based on the vehicle black box.

(Photo = Dobong Fire Station, Yonhap News)