A drunk man lying in an alley was hit by a car and died.
It is revealed that the police who went to the scene before the accident withdrew leaving a lying passerby behind, causing controversy over poor response.
According to the Dongdaemun Police Station in Seoul on the 31st, on the 19th of this month at 8:45 pm in an alley in Hwigyeong-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, a man in his 50s was hit and killed by a passing van.
A was drunk at the time.
Two police officers went to the scene 45 minutes before the accident following receiving a report from a citizen saying that ‘a person was lying on the road’.
However, following a while, he left Mr. A on the road and returned to the patrol car parked on the opposite side and waited in the car until the moment the accident occurred.
A police official admitted, “I tried to wake up Mr. A, but he stubbornly refused, saying he didn’t need help, so he seemed to be trying to watch from the surroundings.”
Police booked a van driver in his 60s who caused the fatal accident on charges of negligent manslaughter under the Act on Special Cases for Handling Traffic Accidents.
Police officers dispatched to the scene plan to review whether or not to file a case following inspecting the case.
/yunhap news
