The 56-year-old was found unresponsive at her London home on July 26, 2023.
SEOUL: South Korea n police concluded on Thursday that the fatal car crash that killed nine people on July 1 near Seoul City Hall was caused by the driver’s poor handling of the vehicle rather than sudden unintended acceleration as claimed by the driver.
“Though the suspect is consistently maintaining a stance that it was an accident caused by defects of the vehicle, it has been found through further investigation that it was due to poor handling of the vehicle – contrary to the suspect’s claims,” said Seoul Namdaemun Police Station Chief Ryu Jae-hyeok.“According to the National Forensic Service’s analysis, no mechanical defects were found in the acceleration and brake systems and the event data recorder was also operating normally,” said Ryu.
Ryu also mentioned that the 68-year-old driver, surnamed Cha, had repeatedly “stepped on and off” the accelerator rather than the brakes at the time, citing EDR records and a pattern imprinted on the outsoles of Cha’s shoes that matched the accelerator’s. “The EDR records show that the suspect had only stepped on the brakes after colliding with another vehicle.”On July 1, Cha’s sedan crashed into pedestrians waiting for a traffic light at an intersection near Exit No. 7 of Seoul’s City Hall Station in Jung-gu, central Seoul.
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