Fight over speeding on the highway leads to my wife’s fatal accident

A long-distance bus is seen after it collided with a small SUV that was stopped in a bus lane near the Namcheongju Intersection on the Gyeongbu Expressway, killing a female passenger who had exited the SUV and injuring three others on March 19, 2023. Courtesy of Chungbuk Fire Department Headquarters

Angry husband stopped SUV in bus lane during argument with wife; bus driver and husband sentenced to prison

By KTimes

Two men, an intercity bus driver and the driver of a car that stopped in a highway bus lane and caused an accident that killed the driver’s wife and injured three others, were sentenced to prison on Thursday, court officials said.

The driver of the car and his wife left the stationary vehicle on the highway during an argument.

The Daejeon District Court sentenced the 59-year-old bus driver to one year in prison for violating traffic regulations, which led to the woman’s death. The 66-year-old husband was sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter due to negligence.

The incident occurred at 9:25 a.m. on March 19 last year on the north lane of the Gyeongbu Expressway, 293 kilometers from Seoul, near Nami-myeon, Seowon District, Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.

The bus driver, who was driving an intercity bus on the inside lane of the four-lane road, hit and killed the 65-year-old woman who had gotten out of the stationary car.

The investigation revealed that the husband and his wife were traveling on the highway before the accident and then began to argue about the man’s speed.

Enraged, the husband abruptly changed lanes into the bus lane and stopped. As he was getting out, his wife was getting out on the passenger side and trying to get into the driver’s seat when she was struck and killed by the bus.

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