<Anchor> On the
night of the 16th, a one-ton truck slipped in the rain and a tourist bus crashed on the upbound line of Jungbu Expressway in Jincheon-gun, Chungbuk. At the time of the accident, six people were in the truck, and two people, including the driver, were killed and the other four were taken to the hospital.
Reporter Park Eon of CJB reports.
<Reporter> A
1-ton truck is completely overturned in the middle of the highway.
119 paramedics rescue people in the vehicle.
At about 7:15 last night, a 1-ton truck and a 45-seater bus crashed on the upbound line of the Jungbu Expressway near Munbaek-myeon, Jincheon-gun.
In this accident, two people, including a man in his 60s, a truck driver, were killed, and the remaining four suffered minor injuries and were taken to the hospital.
A one-ton truck running in the first lane slipped into the rain and hit the median strip and invaded the second lane, and the following bus could not avoid it.
The driver who was riding alone on the bus suffered a bruise.
[Bus driver: I stepped on the brakes, but the road surface is wet, so there is no way to escape there.] In the
aftermath of the accident, the highway was congested for about an hour.
Police are investigating the exact details of the accident by securing a black box on the bus.