[Anchor]
Last night, a four-vehicle collision occurred on an expressway in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. Six people were injured in the accident.
We have the overnight news on accidents and incidents from reporter Park Jae-yeon.
[Reporter]
A cargo truck lies overturned on its side, exposing its undercarriage.
A crane vehicle approaches the toppled truck to clear the accident site.
The accident occurred at around 8:20 p.m. yesterday near the Yangji Interchange on the Yeongdong Expressway toward Gangneung in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.
A 7.5-ton cargo truck, an SUV, and two passenger cars collided sequentially.
The crash left two people severely injured, including a man in his 50s driving the cargo truck and a teenage woman riding in a passenger car, both of whom were transported to a hospital.
Four others, including a man in his 20s in the SUV, sustained minor injuries.
During the cleanup operation, three out of the four lanes were blocked, causing temporary traffic congestion stretching about 2 kilometers around the area.
Police believe that a passenger car first hit the guardrail, causing the cargo truck to overturn, after which the following SUV and other vehicles crashed into the truck. Authorities are currently investigating the exact cause of the accident.
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At around 11:40 p.m. last night, a man in his 60s was struck by a cargo truck and an SUV near the Geumsan Interchange on the Tongyeong-Daejeon Expressway toward Daejeon in Geumsan-gun, South Chungcheong Province.
The man died at the scene.
According to police investigations, the victim had been driving a passenger car before crashing into a guardrail and pulling over to the shoulder. He then got out of his vehicle, collapsed on the roadway, and was struck.
Police believe the drivers of the cargo truck and the SUV failed to see the fallen man in time and hit him, and they are looking into the exact circumstances of the incident.
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At around 6:30 p.m. and 6:50 p.m. yesterday, brief power outages lasting about five minutes each occurred on the section of Seoul Subway Line 2 between Nakseongdae Station and Gangbyeon Station.
Train operations were temporarily halted but resumed shortly afterward, Seoul Metro explained.
(Video Editing: Kim Yoon-sung, Footage Provided by: Viewer Song Young-hoon and Korea Expressway Corporation)
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