Taxi Driver Stops Ambulance with Critically Ill Patient Over Minor Accident
Congratulations to this taxi driver for becoming the new most hated man in Korea:
Public anger has been boiling up over a taxi driver who stopped an ambulance carrying an emergency patient from going to a hospital while demanding that the ambulance driver deal with a minor fender bender between the two cars first.
Korea Times
The minor collision occurred in Seoul’s southeastern Gangdong-gu, June 8. According to the son of the patient, the ambulance driver told the cabbie that he would settle the dispute after taking the patient to the hospital, but the cabbie kept demanding that the car accident be handled first and forced the ambulance to stay in the middle of the road.
While the two drivers quarreled for about 10 minutes, another ambulance arrived and took the patient, a lung cancer patient in her 80s. In the end, the patient died in the emergency room, five hours after she arrived at the hospital.
In a petition the son posted on the website run by the presidential office, he claimed the patient missed the so-called golden time needed for timely treatment due to the taxi driver.
You can read more at the link, but the ambulance driver should of just drove past this guy after the accident.
Drag that taxi driver naked across a tarmac covered in broken glass. Then dump him in a vat of Tabasco.
Murder. That was murder.
I was a firefighter in KY many many years ago. State law was written that an emergency vehicle on an emergency run could leave the scene of a non injury accident without any problems. No idea how Korean kangaroo law is written (which of course is useless anymore). As firefighters we were aware of the law but we better have a d*mn good reason to leave the scene, lest we face the wrath of our chain of command.
That taxi driver will get away with it too.
“No idea how Korean kangaroo law is written (which of course is useless anymore).” -2ID Doc
It’s pretty much written the same as your country’s kangaroo law. Perhaps a little better, such as not being allowed to shoot Blacks and everyone else.