<Anchor> A
taxi passenger was caught by the police while strangling a driver while driving on the road.
He was a drunk man in his 60s, but the police say he can't remember it.
This is TJB Kim Chul-jin.
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Inside the taxi waiting for the signal.
Mr. A in his 60s, who was in the back seat, suddenly wrapped the cab driver's neck with his arm and began to squeeze it.
[Taxi driver: Alas, why are you like this, ahhh!] A
taxi driver in his 60s
shouts
painful screams.
While the woke up passenger belatedly curls up, the cramped throat continues for more than 40 seconds until the cars behind them pass the taxi that has stopped.
[Ah why are you doing this, sir.
Why are you doing this.
Ahhhh!] It
happened in a taxi going from Pyeongtaek to Cheonan around 8 pm on the 4th.
A dangerous situation that occurred on a round-trip four-lane road with a lot of normal traffic.
The perpetrator was admitted to the police, but the taxi driver was admitted to the hospital due to trauma.
[Damaged article acquaintance: I couldn't eat properly because I was in the hospital and the mental damage was great...
I am currently in hospital for a week.] In a
police investigation, Mr. A was reported to have stated that he was "drunk and can not remember."
[Police official: Anyway, if the driver is assaulted while driving, the crime (special price law) is applied before the simple assault.
Because it's a special price law.]
The safety of taxi drivers is threatened as a series of incidents involving taxi drivers, including assaulting a taxi driver by the vice minister of Justice Yong-gu Lee, as well as a driver who requested wearing a mask.
(Video coverage: Kim Kyung-han, TJB)