A man in his 20s who drove a Porsche while high on drugs and fled from a pursuing police motorcycle before causing a six-vehicle pileup was sentenced to five years in prison in the first trial.
According to legal sources on the 20th, Uijeongbu District Court Criminal Division 9 single-judge Kim Bo-hyun sentenced a man in his 20s, identified only by the initial A, to five years in prison on charges including violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes (hit-and-run resulting in injury) and the Narcotics Control Act (psychoactive drugs).
According to the court, A injected methamphetamine at a motel in Yangju, Gyeonggi, on the morning of June 11. Around 3:20 p.m. the same day, police caught A using a cellphone while driving a Porsche on a road in Uijeongbu.
A ignored the police order to stop and fled by car. After rear-ending a truck that was stopped at a light, A did not stop and went on to crash into a passenger car and a sport utility vehicle (SUV) in succession.
A continued driving and only came to a stop after additionally crashing into one more passenger car. A also tried to flee even after being apprehended by police. The investigation found that A had previously injected or possessed drugs multiple times.
No one was killed in A's pileup, but several people were injured.
The court said, "While under the influence of methamphetamine, A drove someone else's vehicle, disobeyed a traffic officer's instructions and fled, and in the process caused a traffic accident by crashing into six vehicles, yet was apprehended after attempting to flee again without handling the accident," adding, "It is also unclear whether compensation for personal and property damage has been made to the victims other than one person," in explaining the sentence.