1t truck with wife and grandchild...Driver's telegraph pole crash kills

At around 10:50 a.m. today, a 1-ton truck hit a utility pole on the road in Mujang-myeon, Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do, killing a driver in his 70s.

His wife, who was in her 60s, and grandchildren, who are 5 and 7 years old, respectively, were also injured and taken to the hospital, but it was found that his life was not affected.

Police are investigating the circumstances, believing that the dead driver caused an accident on the way to take his grandchildren to a daycare center.