It was confirmed that the SUV driver drunk driving at the time of the accident in connection with the accident in which all four SUV occupants were killed when an SUV (sports utility vehicle) collided an armored vehicle of the US military in Pocheon last month.
The Pocheon Police Department said today (17th) that "I was informed of the results from the National Institute of Scientific Investigation, which autopsied the driver's body, that the level of blood alcohol concentration in the driver's license was revoked."
At around 9:30 pm on the 30th of last month, an SUV collided an armored vehicle with a U.S. army at Yeongro Bridge (total length 755 m) on the Hantan River in Gwanin-myeon, Pocheon City. .
The police did not disclose specific blood alcohol levels for A, a man in his 50s who is an SUV driver.
At the time of the accident, the police are investigating the exact course of the accident as A was drunk and ran at a high speed of 100 km/h and collided with an armored vehicle.
The speed at the time of the accident was estimated based on the data recording device (EDR) built into the airbag module and the black box video.
Yeongro Bridge, the point of the accident, is a restricted section of 60 km/h.
The police also found that B, a man in his 50s, was driving through the SUV black box until he entered the Yeongro Bridge on the day of the accident.As a result, the autopsy of the body of Mr. The blood alcohol concentration of is confirmed to be the level of license cancellation.
It is difficult to find out exactly how the driver suddenly changed from Mr. B to Mr. A just before the accident due to the death of all SUV occupants, but the police believe that Mr. B, who was drunk, decided that he could not drive properly, and that Mr. A took over the steering wheel.
However, it is estimated that it was difficult for all of them to know that the US armored vehicles were ahead.
The accident occurred at the point where you entered Yeongro Bridge and ran about 650m.
A police official said, "The driver was replaced just before entering the bridge, and as a result of analysis based on closed circuit (CC) TV, etc., it would have been difficult for them to know that there was a distance between the two vehicles at that time, and that the US armored vehicle was moving slowly in front. I can see it."
In addition to drunk driving and speeding by SUV drivers, the police are also scrutinizing whether the U.S. military operated an armored vehicle at fault.
At the time of the accident, it became controversial when it was known that there was no escort vehicle'Convoy' in the front and rear of the armored car line.
A police official said, "Under the Korean Road Traffic Act, there is no regulation that a'convoy' vehicle escorted by lights, etc. must be accompanied when a military vehicle moves, but it is being investigated according to the allegation that there are related regulations in the Korea-US agreement." "I sent an official letter asking for an answer to the relevant content," he explained.
(Photo = Provided by the North Gyeonggi Fire Department, Yonhap News)