A private ambulance driver in his 20s who ran a red light while driving and caused a crash that killed a patient being transported has been booked by police.
According to the Seobu Police Station in Incheon on the 19th, police are investigating a driver in his 20s, identified as A, on suspicion of causing death under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents.
On the morning of the 1st in Cheongna-dong, Seo-gu, Incheon, A ran a red light, collided head-on with a car approaching with a green light, and caused a woman in her 90s who was being transported to die.
Three people in the private ambulance—A, a colleague, and the patient's guardian—and three occupants of the oncoming car also suffered minor injuries.
The investigation found that it was not an emergency that made running the red light unavoidable, yet A entered the intersection recklessly with the light bar on and the siren sounding.
Police determined that the circumstances at the time did not allow application of the special provision permitting signal violations by emergency vehicles, and A was said to have acknowledged this.