A van driven by a drunk person collided with a city bus in the central city of Daejeon, causing the bus to crash into a bridge pillar and leaving 28 people injured, two of them seriously, police said Wednesday. The van's driver in his 50s was drunk at a level warranting license suspension when the vehicle struck the bus at an intersection at 9:53 p.m. Tuesday, police said. The impact caused the bus to swerve off the lane and smash head-on into the railway bridge. Twenty-eight people, including bus passengers and the van's driver, were taken to a hospital with injuries. Two of them suffered serious injuries, including the bus driver, police said. Police booked the van's driver on drunk driving charges. Source: Yonhap News Agency
Drunk driver crashes van into city bus in Daejeon, leaving 28 injured
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