Taxi driver blocked by ambulance, 1 trial and 2 years in prison … “Very serious crime” (total)

Entry 2020.10.21 14:06 | Revision 2020.10.21 14:24

Court judges only accuse business obstruction and insurance fraud
Police investigate murder and negligence charges

A former taxi driver was sentenced to prison in the first trial accused of interfering with the ambulance in which an emergency patient was traveling and, after suffering an accident, handling insurance money and intercepting it.

On the 21st, Judge Lee Yoo-young, the third exclusive criminal in the Seoul Eastern District Law, sentenced Choi Mo (31), who was charged with obstruction of work, special assault and fraud, to two years in prison. .

Judge Lee said: “The crime is very serious in light of the period and method of the crime by misleading that hospitalization or outpatient treatment is necessary even in a simple contact accident.” Even after confirming this, it deserves criticism in light of the dangers that hampered the transfer of patients. “

Judge Lee said, “The defendant was not prosecuted on the premise that there was a causal relationship between the death of an emergency patient in an ambulance and the defendant’s crime,” he said. “We will reveal that this is not the scope of the court’s ruling.”

Earlier, the prosecution asked the court to sentence him to seven years in prison, saying: “Mr. Choi has been violent 11 times and has repeated similar techniques such as insurance fraud for many years.”

After having an accident with an ambulance in Goddeok-dong, Gangdong-gu in June, Choi was brought to trial on charges of obstructing the course of the ambulance for 11 minutes, saying, “Take care of the accident and go away” and “Yo I will take responsibility. ” A (79), a patient with stage 4 lung cancer who was in an ambulance, was taken to the hospital late but died.

Choi is also accused of bullying, after deliberately being in contact with the private ambulance he bought in July 2017, “There are no emergency patients in the ambulance, but since I operated with the siren on, it would give 500,000 won.” In addition, there is also a suspicion of having driven a rented bus or truck from 2015 to 2019, causing six contact accidents and collecting a settlement amount of 20 million won and medical expenses.

In July, survivors of Mr. A, who died, sued Choi for murder, attempted murder and manslaughter. Currently, the Gangdong Police Station is investigating whether there is a causal relationship between Choi’s blocking of the ambulance and the death of A.