이미 오전 7시 19분쯤 충남경찰청 고속도로순찰대에 "역주행하는 라보 트럭이 있다"는 신고가 여럿 접수된 상태였다.
Several reports had already been received at 7:19 a.m. by the highway patrol team of the South Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency that "there is a Labo truck driving backwards."