”We were having dinner together just a moment ago” - Wrong-way driving accident in front of Seoul City Hall Station left people ”stunned” - Korean media

"It suddenly came out of a one-way street like a boomerang and hit people," said Park Seong-il (43), who witnessed the traffic accident at the intersection of City Hall Station in Seoul.
Park explained that a black car suddenly drove the wrong way on Exclusive, hitting more than 10 pedestrians. "I was on the other side of the road and witnessed the accident, where I was a little while ago," he said.
"If I had stayed there a little longer, I would have been a victim," he said. At around 9:28 p.m. on the 1st, a vehicle crashed into a sidewalk on Taepyeong-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul.
Nine people were killed and four were injured in the accident. People who witnessed the accident testified that a vehicle was going the wrong way and hitting people on the sidewalk one after another.
Many traces of the wrong-way vehicle remain at the accident site. A protective fence separating the sidewalk from the road.
The car crash had shattered everything, and the remains of the victims were hidden by tents set up by fire department officials. One store had its windows shattered by flying debris from the accident.
The convenience store near the accident site had its lights on to indicate it was open for business, but the doors were tightly closed.
"I turned around and saw a car going the wrong way and hitting everyone," he said, claiming, "It hit people on the sidewalk and passed them. It wasn't even braking."
A woman in her 50s who had been eating at a nearby restaurant said, "When I came out after finishing my meal, about 15 people had collapsed," and "I had left my food and left the restaurant early, so I was the one who was injured."
"It's so scary to think that I was about to die. My heart is pounding and I can't calm down," he said. "There were victims under the wheels, and at least 10 people must have died."
"It was a situation where we couldn't even perform CPR," he said. In one corner of the accident scene, there was a group of people who seemed to be acquaintances of the victim. They said that a colleague who had been dining with him just an hour before had died.
They were stunned by the fact that their names were on the list. One of the group members cried, saying, "Is this really what we want?" Fire department officials are currently working to confirm the identities of the victims.
They requested to be allowed into the accident site, but were stopped by fire officials in charge of the accident site. Fire officials plan to inform the families of the deceased as soon as they have confirmed their identities.
The man, in his 70s, now claims that the car he was driving suddenly accelerated.