Overview
- Police report the car jumped a sidewalk near the Dongdaemun Station intersection in Jongno at about 10 p.m. Sunday.
- The victims were a Japanese mother in her 50s who later died after cardiac arrest and her daughter in her 30s who suffered minor injuries.
- Officers arrested a man in his 30s at the scene, and his blood-alcohol level was high enough to prompt immediate license cancellation.
- The suspect was booked on driving under the influence and on causing death or injury through dangerous driving under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes.
- Hyehwa Police are continuing the investigation, as national data show persistent pedestrian and drunk-driving fatalities and Japan remains a major source of visitors to South Korea.