[News] YG Entertainment speaks on Daesung’s accident + motorcyclist pronounced dead
Following the reports of Big Bang’s Daesung’s car accident, YG Entertainment officials have followed up with an explanation of what happened at the scene.
On May 31st, officials spoke through Star News and revealed, “Daesung is in great shock and sadness over an accident that he could not avoid. He burst into tears due to his concerns for the injured party.”
At 1:40 AM KST, Daesung had crashed into a taxi that was ahead of him. Fortunately, the taxi driver was not reported to be injured. According to YG Entertainment, the taxi was swerving in and out of the two lanes before quickly braking at a downhill road, which resulted in the accident.
Officials continued, “Immediately after the accident, Daesung got out of the car and headed straight for the taxi driver. After asking how he was, the taxi driver said, ‘That isn’t the problem right now.’ There was a motorcyclist already bleeding in the lane, which led the taxi driver to swerve out into the second lane in order to avoid hitting him, before making an abrupt stop.”
Investigations are currently being held as to whether the motorcyclist was killed by a hit-and-run, and whether Daesung’s car collided with him at all. It has been confirmed, however, that the motorcyclist was pronounced dead. Investigators are currently awaiting autopsy results in order to see whether he was already dead prior to Daesung’s accident, or whether his death was connected to him.
Source + Image: Star News, Asia Economy
Shareb by: allkpop
UPDATE:
The Korean media is reporting that as of 6:50AM KST, Daesung has completed five hours of initial investigations with the police, and is making his way home.
The star was described to have worn a black hoodie over his face while leaving the police station with his manager.
Police commented, “Daesung was overwhelmed with the accident today, but he diligently took part in the investigations.”
Source: Star News + allkpop
The police have come out with a statement for the first stage of the investigation saying that they believe Daesung is not behind the motorcyclist's death.
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YG to Star News:
"Daesung is having a very hard time right now. The reason behind Daesung’s agony is concern and sadness for the deceased person, who may or may not have passed away because of his mistake. His sadness and concern for the deceased is first in his mind, so Daesung is crying a lot right now."
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UPDATE: While they don't think Daesung is behind the motorcyclist's death for now it was found that Daesung was over the speed limit driving at 80kmph in a 60kmph zone, so he will be charged for speeding. They are still investigating whether the motorcyclist died before or after Daesung arrived. For now though, they're assuming the man died before he arrived due to the hit and run. They also explained details about the accident and there was a taxi and another car in front of Daesung, those two were able to avoid the body, but Daesung didn't see it and then crashed into the taxi. If it's confirmed that Daesung didn't cause the motorcyclist's death, then the only thing he is responsible for is crashing into the taxi.
This is the police report. He's only responsible for crashing into the taxi due to unsafe driving. The police are now directing their attention at finding the hit and runner.
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Daesung’s charges
Group Bigbang’s Daesung was involved in a car accident on the 31st. The Police stated that the victim has deceased and that Daesung is charged with ‘neglecting safe driving duties.’
Since Daesung’s car hit a motorcycle that had already fallen before his arrival and not a moving car, his charge is ‘neglectful accident’ rather than a ‘intrusion of safe driving distance.’
Daesung’s punishment depends on whether or not the motorcyclist was dead at the time of Daesung’s car crash.
If the motorcyclist was already dead when Daesung’s car crashed, this is a ‘ruin of corpse’ and not a ‘car accident violence’ and thus Daesung is not lawfully responsible for a compensation, although morally expected.
Even if the motorcyclist was alive when the second collision (by Daesung’s car) occurred, Daesung’s “neglect” was not heavy (a ‘heavy neglect’ would include DUI and traffic signal violation) and therefore will not lead to Daesung’s imprisonment and the like. He is, however, lawfully responsible to compensate. A typical fatal car accidents are at least $18,000 ~ $28,000 and depends on the annual income from there.
After the fatal car accident involving Big Bang member Daesung, activities are expected to inevitably be disrupted for some time.
Agency YG Entertainment said, “After the accident and being investigated for 3-4 hours at the police station, (Daesung) has returned to the hostel to rest”, adding, “he is in shock and worrying greatly.”
According to YG, Daesung has no particular schedule for some time. The show that he is currently a regular on, SBS ‘Night After Night’, will not be recording this week, as explained by the agency. After the end of the 19-day concerts in Japan, Big Bang was on vacation until about next week.
However, the police investigation that is expected to take time looks to affect Big Bang’s future activities. In particular, in the case of if the death of the motorcyclist was caused by Daesung’s car accident, personal detainment may be inevitable.
The police are trying to find out the details of the first accident of the motorcyclist hit by Daesung’s car, and an autopsy has been scheduled to discover the cause of death.
Source: bigbangkorea @ tumblr
Translated by: Sara @ bigbangupdates + john teshyeahbigbangstuff
[INFO] Pianist Jung Jaehyung tweeted about Daesung
Jung Jae Hyung, a pianist close to Daesung and Lee Hyori posted a message on twitter and a reply to Hyori’s tweet regarding Daesung.
일어나 보니 대성이의 사고소식.안타깝네요.여린 대성이의 모습을 생각하니 마음이 무겁습니다.
Jung Jae Hyung: I woke up to see news of Daesung’s car accident. It’s unfortunate. I think Daesung who has a tender appearance must have a heavy heart right now.
发表于 27-5-2011 09:58 AM
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看到满头烟。。
），也有说骑士还没被冁过前就死了的。。。比较肯定的是大成没有醉驾，事发时也没有讲电话，不过是超速了。
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