<Anchor> Last
night (15th), about 40 vehicles collided in a chain reaction on a highway in Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do.
One person was killed and three people were seriously injured, but the police and firefighters estimate that the snow froze and the vehicles skidded.
Reporter Park Jae-yeon reports.
<Reporter>
The vehicle was crushed beyond recognition, and tow trucks were pulling the vehicles in the accident.
At around 9:10 last night, 47 vehicles collided in a chain reaction on the Soheul-eup section in the direction of Pocheon on the Guri-Pocheon Expressway in Gyeonggi-do.
One person died and three were seriously injured in the accident.
Twenty-eight people with minor injuries received first aid at the scene or were taken to the hospital.
This is the scene of the accident.
The car was crumpled like a sheet of paper in the accident, and debris was scattered everywhere.
Witnesses say the crash site was slippery with frozen snow.
[Lee Jae-gu/Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do: Now, calcium chloride is sprayed.
When we went and filmed (the scene), the front was smooth.
It was slippery even as I walked.
It was quite slippery.
When I saw it, it was so thin that the light shined through it...
.]
Police and firefighters dispatched to the scene were also reported to have checked the frozen and slippery road.
[Hwang Tae-geun/Pocheon Fire Department on-site commander: (Road icing is the direct cause of the accident?) We figured it out, but the police are investigating the exact accident (cause).]
'Black' on the road where snow or rain freezes to become a thin sheet of ice Ice is the main culprit of traffic accidents in winter.
In particular, this black ice is difficult for drivers to identify because it freezes with the soot accumulated on the road and takes on a black color.
(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, Video editing: Lee Sang-min)