'Looking down at the parking fees'...A woman in her 50s died after getting stuck in a parking breaker.

Courtesy of Dongducheon Police Station, Yonhap News

A woman in her 50s who got out of her car to settle the parking fee was caught in a parking breaker and died.

According to the police today (30th), a driver in his 50s was caught between his car and a parking machine at a parking lot in Tapdong-dong, Dongducheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, at around 6:30 p.m. the previous day. Mr. A was taken to the hospital unconscious due to an accident involving

, but died.

The police believe that A, who was trying to settle the parking fee, had an accident in the process of opening and getting off the door while leaving the gear in the driving (D) state without switching to the parking (P) state.

A police official explained, "The driver entered the vehicle diagonally from the downhill road and was far from the parking fee settlement machine, so the vehicle seems to have moved and got stuck with the circuit breaker while opening the door."

The police are investigating the details of the accident based on the passenger's statements.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team