Picture from this article.
The Korea Times reports seven teachers were killed last night.
The accident occurred at around 10 p.m. when a bus rear-ended a passenger car and about nine other vehicles, including those parked at roadside in Suyu-dong. Gangbuk-gu. The exact number of cars involved was not immediately known.
All the seven occupants of the Avante car were killed after moving to a nearby coffee shop after a dinner meeting, the police said, without giving details about the conditions of the injured.
A poster on Dave's says they were accountants and office workers, not teachers. To echo the comments on the article, my condolences, but there shouldn't have been seven people in an Avante. More in Korean here, and here's another photo.
* Update: Here's a little update a few days later.
6 comments:
Willing to wager than none of them had seat belts on? These people live their lives like a fucking Oingo Bongo song. "Nothing bad ever happens to me." I'd have been the only surviver of the party, cause after dinner, I'd have been all "Fuck that! I'm goint to get a drink." 10pm? Coffee shop? Hello?
Brian wrote:
To echo the comments on the article, my condolences, but there shouldn't have been seven people in an Avante.
Brian is right that there should not have been seven people in an Avante (which is, legally, a five-person vehicle, I believe).
Cops do stop people for this and if you're stopped for any other reason (like at a sobriety checkpoint) you can and do get ticketed for this.
If you have an accident, even if the number of passengers is not directly related to the accident, you will still pay a fine.
That they were traveling a short distance probably made them think it was okay and that they would have no real problem getting away with it.
In the end, though, it's highly doubtful that the number of vehicles played any role in the passengers' deaths. They were crushed by a bus.
Requiescant in pace.
nb wrote:
Willing to wager than none of them had seat belts on? These people live their lives like a fucking Oingo Bongo song. "Nothing bad ever happens to me."
Dude, at least Brian's comment was relevant because it was based on facts rather than speculation.
Dude, they were crushed by a bus. Even if you are certain that "none of them had seat belts on" (and I know you're not saying it, but you're pretty certain about it and you are the one who brought it up), seat belts would not have saved their lives. Not at all. They were crushed by a bus.
Take a look at the picture Brian posted even before he added the second KT update. Do you think seat belts would save a person in such a situation?
This is confirmed in the second KT article:
The bus pushed an Avante passenger car 160 meters and only stopped when it climbed on top of the car. All seven occupants were killed, police said.
They were crushed by a bus. If seat belts had nothing to do with it, why bring it up? Dude, you need to do a serious attitude readjustment, because you really seem like you're just looking for negativity wherever you find it, which is almost always a self-fulfilling prophecy, and while that will adversely affect those around you, it's going to affect you (probably is affecting you) much worse. Get a grip on the dark man inside you, dude.
Come on over to the dark side., Kush....we have donuts. Whether or not the seatbelts would have helped was not my point. My point is the Koreans dont wear them. How many kids do you see roaming around car interiors without seatbelts on?
160 meters?! First of all, that is 1 and a half football fields. Breaking distance cannot POSSIBLY be that long. Did he not notice that he was dragging a FUCKING avanti?!
nb wrote:
Come on over to the dark side., Kush....we have donuts.
I've lived in enough places to know that it's a lifestyle that lies within you, and it probably has little to do with Korea per se.
I even meet your kind in Hawaii — America's frickin' paradise — and see people who are consumed with negativity. Sure, there are things to complain about (the road conditions are terrible, there are whole neighborhoods of Honolulu where certain ethnicities shouldn't go, prices are too high for fresh produce, rent is overpriced and rental units are often substandard), but for the most part, it's a pretty nice place. But there are people who just extract something negative in every freakin' situation in front of them. Really, what purpose does that serve? Are you only happy when you're miserable? What gives?
I have loads to complain about in Seoul, but there's a hell of a lot of good stuff that way more than makes up for it, and when I'm off in Hawaii or California, yeah, I start to miss some of that.
Whether or not the seatbelts would have helped was not my point. My point is the Koreans dont wear them.
"Koreans" don't wear them? Most people I drive around put on their seat belts without me saying something — even first-time passengers of mine who don't know that I won't move until they put them on. Passengers in the front more likely than the back, but I'd say those who do outnumber those who don't.
How many kids do you see roaming around car interiors without seatbelts on?
Too many. And if I were mayor, governor, or president, I'd be threatening child endangerment charges.
But I also know plenty who do, so I wouldn't say "Koreans don't" to this either.
160 meters?! First of all, that is 1 and a half football fields. Breaking distance cannot POSSIBLY be that long. Did he not notice that he was dragging a FUCKING avanti?!
Yeah, that sounds suspect. The driver's explanation sounds suspect. I don't think it's done automatically for all accidents, though maybe for all involving fatalities, but Breathalyzer tests should be mandatory for any accident.
In Korea, the Breathalyzer results can be extrapolated back to the time of the accident and used against the driver in a court of law.
I know this from first-hand experience when a driver hit me, the accident was presumed to be my fault (with good reason, even though it was wrong), but when they did a Breathalyzer test two hours later they determined that at the time of the accident he had BAL of 0.10%, twice the legal limit. He lost his license and was fined two million won.
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