By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
A university professor was hit and killed by a school bus on his bike ride home in Gwangju, Tuesday. The bus driver's dozing off caused the tragedy, Gwangju Metropolitan Police said.
According to the police, the 58-year-old Han was driving his nursery bus on a three-lane-road near Chonnam National University hospital and fell asleep while behind the wheel, inadvertently steering the vehicle to the inside lane hitting Prof. Baek Jeong-seon, of the university.
The mathematics professor regularly commuted via his bike.
Police said Han had been suffering from chronic renal failure, which made him drowsy from time to time.