The police began investigating whether the deceased man was drinking and whether the YouTuber was involved in the accident.
Reporter Cheon Hong-hee reports.
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A dark-colored SUV speeds along the road, ignoring the red signal and center line.
Then, it crashes into a parked truck and starts to catch fire.
A male driver in his 30s died after crashing into a truck while driving an SUV on a road in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju early yesterday.
[Mr. Kang/Eyewitness]
“Completely burned down, unrecognizable… to the point where you can’t tell the car model apart…”
As a result of the police investigation, it was confirmed that the driver was running away from the YouTuber who was chasing him and questioning him for drunk driving.
The YouTuber is known to be the so-called ‘Drunken Driving Hunter’, who is popular for reporting drunk drivers to the police and filming them chasing them.
[Police official (voice altered)]
“I did this because I thought the vehicle that was involved in the accident was drunk driving… I think the driver moved to avoid it.”
On this day, the YouTuber reported the incident to the police and was chasing the vehicle, saying he suspected drunk driving.
A man in his 30s who was driving in a high-tech entertainment district here recognized a YouTuber asking him if he had been drinking and ran away here.
However, the police explained that after checking CCTV on the road, it was not confirmed that the YouTuber was closely following the vehicle just before the accident.
The police began investigating whether the deceased driver was drinking and speeding, and the YouTuber’s connection to this accident.