A second-grade elementary school student died after being struck by a right-turning SUV in a child protection zone in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, on October 15. Police said the student was crossing an unsignalized crosswalk near the Chamber of Commerce in Sammun-dong at about 4 p.m. when the collision occurred. The child was taken to a nearby hospital but died at 5:16 p.m., about 75 minutes after the crash.
Police booked the driver, a man in his 70s, on a charge under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes and are investigating the circumstances of the turn and whether safety checks were made.