Driving in the opposite direction on the highway of ‘personal pessimism’… A tour bus driver prevented the accident
A tour bus driver who prevented a large-scale disaster by blocking vehicles traveling in reverse on a highway in the middle of the night received a commendation from the Korea Expressway Corporation.
The Daegu/Gyeongbuk Headquarters of the Korea Expressway 메이저사이트Corporation announced on the 26th that they had given a commendation and a reward to Kang Tae-gyu (27), a tour bus driver.
On the 20th, at around 11:55 pm, Kang found a car driving in reverse on the Gyeongbu Expressway in Chilgok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and slowly stopped in front of the car. In the CCTV footage released by
SBS , a large truck running in four lanes at the time found a reverse-driving car standing on the shoulder of the road and slowly passed by with the emergency blinkers turned on. Subsequently, the express bus Mr. Kang was driving also found a car driving in the opposite direction. Instead of avoiding the side lane, Mr. Kang showed his wit and got closer to the car driving in the opposite direction. When a car driving in reverse reversed itself and tried to avoid the bus, Mr. Kang pulled the bus closer and blocked the drive. In this way, Mr. Kang blocked the vehicle running in the opposite direction for 6 minutes, and soon the highway patrol and the highway construction safety patrol dispatched to the scene caught the driv
The driver of the car was a woman in her 40s who was not intoxicated and was said to be pessimistic about her personal situation and drove the wrong way.
Mr. Kang said, “I found the vehicle while driving carefully because the road sign said there was a vehicle driving in the opposite direction.”
“We will continue to find and encourage hidden heroes who have practiced exemplary good deeds and strive for the safety of highways,” said Jeon Hyeong-seok, head of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Headquarters.
er of the car.