Driving test drowning
NZPA-Reuter Seoul A South Korean housewife drowned during her driving test after her car swerved off the course and plunged into a stream swollen by seasonal rains, the police said. Shin In-ja, aged 30, was trying to make a left turn at a police test centre in south-east Seoul when her car lurched forward, smashed through a 30cm high barrier and toppled into a tributary of the Han River.
The police ' said she might have stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.
While the police looked on, she managed to get out of the car but was swept away by the current. Her body was recovered 17 hours later.
The police said they would check the car for mechanical faults.
South Korean driving tests are over a set course where a computer records any mistakes.
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Press, 27 July 1988, Page 41
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