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Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, a car rushed over the sidewalk and collided with a transformer, causing power outages in hundreds of nearby apartments. The driver and passenger who caused the accident fled, leaving the car at the scene.
Correspondent Kim Min-jung.
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black Mercedes-Benz car crashes into a transformer and stops.
Smoke billows from the tanned transformer.
Today (19th) around 8:10 am in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, a Mercedes-Benz car rushed towards the ground transformer installed on the sidewalk block in front of the apartment complex.
The vehicle that climbed over the sidewalk block has black wheel marks, and several fences have been demolished due to the impact of the accident.
After a long drive, the vehicle eventually crashed into a transformer.
[Apartment Security Guard: It just jumped like a sudden rush and got on (on the sidewalk block). Get on it and there's a distribution board over there. It hits that thing in an instant.] About
900 apartments in the vicinity suffered a power outage due to this accident.
[Nearby shopping mall employee: There are many things to do due to electricity, and there are many other things that I have to do, but everything is all-stopped (inconvenient.) The elevator does not work.]
There were people trapped in the elevator when the electricity was cut off, but the emergency generator was activated, causing great damage. and electricity was restored in 30 minutes.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver and passenger left the car and fled immediately after the accident.
The police are looking for the driver by inquiring the vehicle information, but after the accident, the CCTV was turned off due to a power outage.
The vehicle in the accident was found to be a leased vehicle.
(Video coverage: Chan-soo Lee, video editing: So Ji-hye)