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person sitting in the passenger seat was injured in the head and was unable to find consciousness as a metal suddenly flew into the windshield of a car running on the highway last week.

The iron in question was confirmed to have fallen from a freight car on the other side of the highway, and voices are growing that strong penalties and regulations are needed to prevent such a falling object accident.



This is Park Jae-hyun.



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Near the Iljuk Nadeulmok on the Jungbu Expressway.



Black metal falls from a lorry swaying through the road joint.



The metal that was bounced off the SUV in the next lane passed through the median and penetrated the windshield of a car coming from the opposite lane.



A woman in her 50s who was in the passenger seat was hit by this metal in her head, but she hasn't been awakened yet.




[Lee Sang-min/Chungbuk Police Agency Highway Patrol Team Leader: (Iron) came through the windshield of a car and shocked the head of a woman in her 50s who was in the passenger seat, and the woman was unconscious... .



The metal in question was a 3.5 kilogram mast pin, a screw for a tower crane.



The mast pin that fell from the truck was hit by an SUV running side by side and bounced to the opposite lane and hit the car.



The police charged the driver of a truck carrying a crane without covering the cargo hold for negligence under the Traffic Accident Special Act.



About 40 highway fall accidents occur every year, and 25 people were injured or killed in the five years until last year.



Moreover, even if it suffers damage, it is not easy to find a vehicle that has dropped falling objects, and it is difficult to prove negligence even if it is found, so punishment and compensation are not often provided.



As a result, a petition from the Blue House to prevent accidents from falling objects by strengthening crackdown on illegally remodeling and overloading trucks was raised, and more than 30,000 people joined in four days.



(Video coverage: Lee Yong, Choi Choi Woong, video editing: Lee Jae-seong, CG: Lee Jun-ho)