40s Signaling 'Car Breakdown'... Hit and Killed by Rear Vehicle

West Coast Expressway Mokpo Direction Yongdam Tunnel

A man who was giving hand signals after getting off a vehicle due to a breakdown was hit and killed by a following vehicle.

According to the police on the 18th, around 4 a.m. that day, a man in his 40s, Mr. A, who had gotten off his vehicle due to a breakdown and was giving hand signals at Yongdam Tunnel on the Seohaean Expressway heading toward Mokpo in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, was hit by a vehicle from behind and died.

On the morning of the 14th, during the joint crackdown on traffic violations during the Chuseok holiday, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency's aviation unit helicopter was monitoring violating vehicles near Singal IC on the Gyeongbu Expressway in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi Province.
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Mr. A was driving a passenger car in the second lane of a three-lane road when his vehicle broke down, prompting him to get off. Afterward, he gave a breakdown signal to the vehicles behind, but a man in his 20s, Mr. B, who was driving a passenger car behind him, failed to notice Mr. A and collided with him. Mr. A, who was involved in the accident, was transported to a nearby hospital in cardiac arrest but passed away.

The police believe that Mr. B caused the accident while using his mobile phone to operate the navigation system while driving.

The police have criminally charged Mr. B with homicide under the Special Act on the Treatment of Traffic Accidents and plan to investigate the detailed circumstances of the accident.