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A former police chief who fled the scene after causing a traffic accident without a license has been handed over to trial.
Yesterday (4th), the Jeonju District Prosecutor's Office announced that it had indicted a former police chief, A, without detention on charges of violating the Special Act on Traffic Accident Handling and the Road Traffic Act.
However, contrary to the results of the police investigation, the prosecution decided not to prosecute the hit and run charges.
A is accused of causing an accident with another car while driving his car without a license at an intersection in Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, on the 24th of June.
At that time, Mr. A left the scene without taking any action, and the victim was injured for two weeks in the accident.
The police, who received the report from the victim, contacted Mr. A at around 5 pm after looking at the vehicle's record, but Mr. A denied the crime, saying, "I am the owner of the car, but I did not drive."
Later, at about 6 pm on the same day, Mr. A called his acquaintance B and asked, "Please tell the police that you were driving the car." did
When the police investigation began in earnest, Mr. A confessed that he was driving, but denied the hit-and-run accusation, saying, "I didn't think I was in an accident, but I thought I was hit."
As to the reason for leaving the accident scene, he replied, "I was confused and chased after the vehicle that had a contact accident."
However, the police judged that A had left the scene even after recognizing the traffic accident, so he applied the charge of escaping and sent it over.
As a result of the investigation, it was found that Mr. A was caught driving under the influence in December of last year and his driver's license was revoked, and the road where he had the accident was under his jurisdiction at the time of his current job.
A police official at the time said, "Even if Mr. A had mistakenly thought that there was an accident with another car right after the accident, he would have known that the accident had occurred." .
On the other hand, the prosecution dismissed the charge of hit-and-run, such as theft and failure to take action after the accident, due to insufficient evidence.
An official from the prosecution explained, "A's statement and the driver's statement of the car that Mr.
Meanwhile, the Jeonbuk National Police Agency launched an investigation into two people, the police officer in charge of the initial investigation and the incumbent police officer who contacted Mr. A on the day of the accident.