A man was crushed and died while trying to stop a sliding bus
An incident occurred where a bus, which was parked on a slope, slid down leading to the death of a 30-year-old bus company employee.
According to Vietnamese media 'Znews' on the 15th (local time), the sliding bus was stationary while waiting to depart from the terminal garage.
At that time, a 37-year-old man working in a nearby office saw the sliding bus and immediately ran out, attempting to stop it with his body.
However, the bus had already gained momentum from being pushed downhill, making it impossible for the man to stop it alone.
In the end, the bus crashed into a streetlight. The man, who got trapped between the bus and the streetlight, lost his life there.
The bus was not carrying any driver or passengers, and it appears that the incident occurred while it was parked without safety measures such as wheel chocks on the sloped road.
Video footage from a nearby citizen's closed-circuit television (CCTV) has shocked netizens.
Local police are investigating the precise cause of the man's death based on this closed-circuit video.
Meanwhile, the 'Hajun Law' has been in effect for five years in the Republic of Korea to prevent sliding accidents involving parked vehicles on slopes.
According to the Hajun Law, when parking on a slope, one must install anti-slip facilities like wheel chocks or turn the wheels.
Additionally, sloped parking lots are required to have wheel chocks and install warning signs regarding slipping for safety.
Failure to comply with these safety measures may result in fines of up to 200,000 KRW for the driver, and the parking lot manager may face a six-month business suspension and fines of up to 2.5 million KRW; however, since these measures are recommendations rather than mandatory, there are criticisms about their ineffectiveness.
Image source: znews, June 25, 2020, on the first day of the 'Hajun Law' implementation, a storage box for wheel chocks is placed at the parking lot of Seoul Land in Gwacheon, where the late Choi Hajun tragically lost his life in an accident. / News1
