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A drunk driver on a highway drunk suddenly made a U-turn in a tunnel and then reversed. The other cars stopped in a hurry and no accident occurred. The driver was found to have drunk while driving.

I'm G1 Song Hye Rim.

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Today (23rd) around 0:57 am inside the Inje Tunnel at Seoul Yangyang Expressway.

A 3.5 ton van goes through a tunnel and suddenly stops and attempts a U-turn as if to change direction.

Five cars running fast behind the scenes, turn on the emergency lights and stop.

The van tries to make a hard U-turn in the tunnel and eventually backs out.

Lee Mo, a 46-year-old driver, left the tunnel, parked in a vacant lot, got off the car, got caught, and was caught by the police.

Mr. Lee's blood alcohol level was 0.186% at the time of the arrest.

In a police investigation, Lee stated that while carrying truck equipment from Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do to Gangneung, he drunk two bottles of soju at a convenience store and drunk.

It was reported that they drove to Inje Tollgate while drunk and traveled about 20km on the Seoul Yangyang Expressway.

The station's driving distance is estimated to be about 3 km.

[Joe Byung-hun / Head of Highway Patrol, Gangwon Police Agency: My statement now seems to have missed the road because I drunk and drunk while driving in the middle of the (highway) rest area.]

Police are investigating Mr. Lee for violating the Road Traffic Law.

(Video coverage: Park Jong-hyun G1, Image provided by Korea Expressway Corporation)