Korean Bus Driver and Husband of Accident Victim Receive Jail Sentences
I feel bad for the bus driver in this incident who only hit this car because it was parked in the bus lane while the couple inside were arguing:
A highway bus driver and a woman’s husband who hit a woman in her 50s who got out of the car while fighting on the highway were sentenced to imprisonment.
According to the legal community on the 27th, the Daejeon District Court’s Criminal Chamber 9 (Judge Ko Young-sik) sentenced A (59) to one year in prison and her husband B (66) to two years in prison on charges of professional negligence.
Earlier on March 19th last year, A was put on trial on charges of hitting and killing a woman in her 50s, C (65), who was standing behind a stopped vehicle while driving an express bus in one of the four lanes on the 293.2km one way toward Seoul on the Gyeongbu Expressway in Nami-myeon, Seowon-gu, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do.
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Korean logic and laws are baffling.
The husband should not have stopped there. And the bus driver needed to pay more attention.
Maybe this will encourage others to obey the traffic laws?
When driving the speed limit, there is not enough time to recognize a stopped car and stop a bus.
The husband deserves his jail time for being a tard. The wife got punished for being a nag, possibly too harshly, but possibly not.
The bus driver is the victim and the “justice system” that victimized him is shameful, as is everyone involved.
Dishonorable people at all levels.
The bus driver broke the law by being criminally negligent. It doesn’t matter if the car was in the bus lane, he would have been able to stop if he was careful. Where is the baffling coming from?
The stopping distance of a bus traveling the legal speed limit combined with the natural limits of human reaction time makes it hard to blame the bus driver…
…at least if you are a rational and empethetic human instead of a dummy or a sociopath.
Your mileage may vary.
CH, I’m 99.44% in agreement with you; but drivers must be able to avoid hitting things. Regardless of weather, lighting, or nagging wives.
The bus driver needs especially to be alert, as they carry the lives and health of all their passengers. If he had been alert, he could have stopped. There was enough time for the dead woman to exit the vehicle and stand behind it, for example.
Setnaffa, I don’t know the specifics of the accident.
Generally, people who cross the center line, people who drive drunk, people who run red lights, people who run into traffic, people who stop in the middle of an express road, etc., are 100% to blame by default.
In a just world, the person living their normal life, following the rules, and doing nothing wrong gets no blame and their life is not destroyed over actions initiated by others.
The next step is to determine how much blame the person who initiated the situation should get.
Wife nagging so you stop the car in a forbidden area? Blame. Engine catch on fire while driving? Maybe no blame, especially if you took any action to reduce danger.
Not every situation requires punishment for society to be protected and justice to be served.
In both America and Korea, I know someone who was driving and minding their own business when somebody jumped in front of their car and comitted suicide.
In America, the cops showed up and said, “Yeah, we know him. He has done this before. Looks like he succeeded.” An hour later, he was back on the road and that was the end.
In Korea, the guy did a year in jail for the exact same thing. For what point? How did this make society a better place? (He said everyone from the judge to the jailers said this was bullshìt and he was treated very well in Korean jail).
I feel very sorry for this bus driver.
Hopefully, he uses his time to better himself, such as learning welding and how to drive a bulldozer.
We will put you in a similar situation and see how you do as the bus driver.
I am jaded and spoiled; but I’m not really thinking bus drivers of any nation are the “White Knights of the Road”. In fact, many are quite unsafe and rude to other drivers and even their own passengers. I’m about 50% with the limo bus drivers from Inchon Airport being nice or not. YMMV.
When we were taught to drive in the Middle Ages, we had to signal everything we were going to do about 100 feet before doing it and stop in half the distance we could see. That was in the USA, so might not be applicable in the land of people driving cars on the sidewalk and using lane dividers as “suggestions”.
Still, it seems the driver had very inadequate legal representation if he was not to blame. Did he mistakenly wear a MAGA hat to court?
Look up the difference between “rule of law” and “rule by law”.
I was astonished, and slightly perturbed, when I got to experience Korean driving. I was taught to always physically turn my head to check the blind spot the rear view mirror doesn’t show before changing lanes. Koreans don’t do that, they often don’t even signal.