Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
Schizophrenic trucker drives opposite way, kills self, son and other driver
Three people died when a truck and a Kia Forte collided on the Dangjin-Yeondeok Expressway, Tuesday. The truck was driven the wrong way on the expressway for about 19 kilometers. Yonhap
By Lee Gyu-lee
By Lee Gyu-lee
A man suffering schizophrenia
into a car after traveling the wrong way for about 19 kilometers on the Dangjin-Yeondeok Expressway in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province, Tuesday, killing himself, his son and the car's driver.
The man, surnamed Park, 40, started driving in the opposite direction at 7:16 a.m. He crashed into a Kia Forte 18 minutes later.
Park and his son, 3, died at the scene. Choi, 29, the driver of the car, was taken to hospital but died shortly after. She was on her way to work.
Police were chasing Park's truck but could not stop him before the collision.
Park's wife called police when she found that Park left with their son. “My schizophrenic husband might be dangerous because he has not been taking pills recently,” she told them.