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It is said that it is raining today (17th), but there is something particularly anxious about this morning. As you can see right behind me, this is a pothole where the road is pitted by rainwater. During the last weekend, it rained quite a bit for the spring rain, and these potholes have been created all over the place. Yesterday evening, more than 20 vehicles were damaged due to portholes in various places on Olympic Road in Seoul, such as flat tires. You should also be careful driving in rain this morning.
This is reporter Ahn Hee-jae.
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Around 8 o'clock yesterday evening, near Gwangjin Bridge, Olympic-daero in Seoul.
Vehicles with emergency lights are lined up on one side of the road.
17 vehicles inflicted large and small damage in a 1m long and 20cm deep porthole in 1 of the 4 lanes.
[Kim Chan-joong / Damaged vehicle driver: As I passed through the pothole, I said'bread', the car. The tire was punctured and torn... .] After
two days in a row, the ground weakened and a hole was created in the road, but while running through the rain, the pothole, which had been hollowed out, could not be avoided.
Immediately after the accident, emergency repair work was carried out, but the damaged vehicles had to stand on the side of the road with their feet tied for a while.
At the same time, a 1m 50cm long porthole was created on the opposite road, and one vehicle was damaged, and 6 vehicles were damaged in the porthole near the southern end of Guriamsa Bridge.
There was no human injury that day, but some of the roads were once controlled for emergency repair work and accident recovery.
Experts advise that when running on rainy roads, slow down as much as possible, and if you encounter a pothole, slow down rather than forcefully avoiding it, as a way to prevent more serious accidents and minimize damage.
(Screen provided: Park Ki-beom, Kim Chan-joong)