Police Fire Live Rounds at Suspected Drunk Driver in Daegu After 1-Hour Ramming Spree

[Anchor]

A driver in his 30s has been arrested in Daegu after fleeing from police who responded to a suspected drunk driving report. During his escape, the driver rammed into police officers and 11 vehicles before finally being stopped after police fired four live rounds.

TBC reporter Park Dong-joo has the story.

[Reporter]

Around 2:30 AM today (September 2), in a residential area in Eupnae-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu.

A foreign car with its headlights on crashes directly into a parked 1-ton truck and a police car.

Police officers try to stop the vehicle by smashing the window with a multi-purpose baton,

[Get out! Stop doing that!]

Cursing, the driver attempts to reverse and escape.

[Hey, let's see about that, you bastards!]

Police fired four live rounds at the tires and used a Taser to barely subdue the driver in his 30s, surnamed A.


One police officer was seriously injured in the process.

[Witness: Because the car was driving back and forth this way, it seems an officer who hadn't been on the job long tried to stop it, and the car hit him around the leg...]

The frantic rampage began at around 1:40 AM.

A citizen report of suspected drunk driving was first filed in Beomeo-dong, Suseong-gu, Daegu, 20 kilometers away from where suspect A was apprehended, and six minutes later, an additional report was received that a taxi driver had been assaulted on the road in Sincheon-dong, Dong-gu, Daegu.

Then, at 1:49 AM, after ramming into a dispatched patrol car in Taepyeong-dong, Jung-gu, Daegu, the driver fled.

This is a road near Gugudan Tunnel in Buk-gu, Daegu.

It was confirmed that suspect A also picked a fight here by honking his horn at a 5.1-ton refrigerated truck ahead of him for moving too slowly, ultimately resulting in a collision.

In just one hour, he rammed a total of 11 vehicles while driving through various parts of downtown Daegu.

Suspect A refused a breathalyzer test.

The Daegu Gangbuk Police Station has arrested and is investigating suspect A alongside a companion on charges of crashing into police cars and officers during his flight after causing traffic accidents.

(Video by Kim Yeong-sang / TBC, Design by Kim Se-yoon / TBC)

Park Dong-joo, TBC
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