Last week, there was an incident in which a 9-year-old child was hit and killed by a drunk driving vehicle in a children's protection zone.
I have also read many articles that the police are buying backlash from the bereaved family because they have decided not to charge the driver with hit-and-run charges.
On the 2nd, near the back gate of an elementary school in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, a 9-year-old elementary school student was hit and killed by a drunk driving vehicle.
It is known that driver A did not get out of the car immediately after the accident, parked at a nearby villa, and returned to the scene.
When the police applied for an arrest warrant for Mr. A, they applied only the charge of murder in a child protection area under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes, called the 'Minshik Act'.
Under the special law, the charge of escape and death, so-called hit-and-run, is excluded.
The police determined that there was no intention of running away, considering that Mr. A returned to the scene 40 seconds after parking and that he asked nearby residents to report to 112.
However, the bereaved family refutes that the charge of hit-and-run should be applied, saying that Mr. A ran away knowing that he had caused an accident.