Man from Nghe An dies trapped in car after car flies from ferry into river
A 5-seater car was parked on a ferry to cross the river when the driver suddenly stepped on the gas, causing the car to plunge into the river. The incident resulted in the death of a man from Nghe An.
Lieutenant Colonel Ha Tan Phu - Chief of Tan Uyen Town Police (Binh Duong) said that as of this evening (December 24), rescue forces were still salvaging the car that fell from the ferry into the Dong Nai River, and at the same time conducting an autopsy to investigate the cause of the incident.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Phu, this afternoon, two men traveled in a Hyundai Tucson car with a Binh Duong province license plate, then boarded the Nhat Thanh ferry on the Dong Nai River to cross to Binh Duong province.
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| Authorities blocked the road to the scene to recover the car that fell into the river. |
When the ferry was about 100m from the riverbank in Thanh Hoi commune, Tan Uyen town, the driver suddenly stepped on the gas, causing the car and two people to plunge into the river.
Discovering the incident, people jumped into the river and saved one person to shore, the other person was trapped in the car and died.
After nearly an hour of searching, the body was brought ashore for an autopsy, while the car is being recovered by rescuers.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Ha Tan Phu, initial findings indicate that the two people in the car showed signs of intoxication. The police have yet to take a statement from this person because he was in a panic and his body reeked of alcohol.
The deceased victim was Nguyen My Ba (born 1975, from Nghe An).
