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There are many unfortunate news of traffic accidents during the holiday season.
Friends in their 70s went on a trip together and in an accident, 2 people died and 6 people were injured.
Reporter Kim Hye-min reports.
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van was thrown out of the road and crumpled horribly.
Rescuers work hard to rescue the occupants, and even a crane is mobilized to move the vehicle.
Today (the 5th) around 4:30 pm, a van passing near the Yeoju Interchange on the Yeongdong Expressway in Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do collided with a guard rail.
In the accident, two people, including the driver, in their 70s, died, and six people in the car were injured and taken to the hospital.
It is known that they were all traveling as friends from their hometown.
[Police official: I was on the way to Seoul after going to Jecheon to play…
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Over 10 km of vehicle congestion occurred in the course of fixing the accident.
The police are investigating the exact cause of the accident based on nearby CCTVs and vehicle black boxes.
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A car was engulfed in red flames.
Firefighters keep spraying water, but the car is charred.
At around 11 pm last night, a car entering the Seobusan tollgate from the Gimhae direction of the Namhae Expressway collided with a shock absorber and caught on fire.
[Police official: As I passed the tollgate in Seobusan, I hit the shock protector separated by the car...
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The fire was extinguished in 15 minutes, but a couple in their 40s died in the vehicle.
The police are investigating the exact cause of the accident by requesting an autopsy from the National Forensic Service.
(Video editing: Lee Seung-jin, video information: Song Young-hoon·Lee Yoo-chan)