<Anchor> On the
evening of the 2nd, the Uijeongbu light rail line was suspended three times due to a signal failure, causing inconvenience to citizens on their way home from work.
The light rail operator urgently dispatched an engineer to manually resume operation.
In addition, reporter Kang Min-woo organized all the incidents and accidents overnight.
<Reporter> An
unmanned light rail is still standing on the track.
All sections of the unmanned light rail in Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi-do were suspended at around 7:30 pm yesterday evening.
[Eyewitness: A guide tone sounded.
The trains were stopped and the lights were off.
Inside the train.] After about
20 minutes, the train was operating normally again, but it stopped again around 9:30 pm, and at 10:30 pm, the third service was suspended, resulting in a lot of protests from passengers on their way home from work.
Uijeongbu City and the light rail operator are analyzing the exact cause.
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Several vehicles were badly damaged to the point of being unrecognizable.
At around 8:50 pm yesterday evening, a total of five vehicles, including a van, an SUV, and a passenger car, collided one after another near the Saengcho Interchange in the direction of Daejeon-Tongyeong Expressway, Daejeon-Tongyeong, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.
A total of 10 people, including two and nine-year-old children in the van, were injured in the accident and were taken to hospital for treatment.
The police are investigating the exact cause of the accident, believing that the SUV crashed into a van while changing lanes and crashed on the first lane.