Cargo fire at Gyeongbu High Speed...Daejeon Seobu SUV "Check if you're drinking"

[Anchor]
A truck driving on the Gyeongbu Expressway caught fire early this morning.

In Daejeon, an SUV hit a median strip and fell over, causing the driver to be taken to a hospital.

News of the accident overnight, reporter Yoon Tae-in's report.

[Reporter]
Smoke rises with a red flame.

Firefighters keep shooting streams of water to put out the flames.

At around 0:50 a.m. today,
A 4.5-ton truck running toward Busan caught fire at Pangyo Junction on the
Gyeongbu Expressway.

No one was hurt, but the front part of the truck was completely burned by this fire.

The fire department, which extinguished the fire in an hour, is investigating the cause of the fire in detail.The truck that caused the

accident completely blocked one lane.

The affected SUV's trunk was badly crushed.

It was around 10:20 p.m. last night that a 7.5-ton truck and two SUVs collided one after another on the way to Incheon from the Ansan junction of the Yeongdong Expressway.

[Police official: X5 bounced off and rear-ended the Sorento car that was driving slowly in front of it. And now a 7.5-ton truck is standing in shock of the barrier on the right.A total of three people, including the driver in the SUV, were slightly injured in the accident of

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Police believe the accident occurred due to the lorry driver's negligence in looking ahead, and are investigating the cause in detail.

After an hour,
An SUV was knocked over by a median strip near the five-way point of Bomunsan Park in Daesa-dong, Daejeon.

[Police official: The median strip there is a boundary stone. The car fell sideways as it hit the median strip. Looking at the black box, it's not that fast.]


A female driver in his 40s is being taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Police said they will check whether the driver is drunk through blood tests.

At around 7:20 p.m. last night,

A fire broke out in a housing warehouse in Bijong-myeon, Boryeong-si, Chungcheongnam-do.

The fire started with a firewood stove in the warehouse and caused an estimated 17 million won in property damage.

The fire department believes that the fire, which started in the stove, was transferred to the firewood that was around it.

I'm YTN Yoon Tae-in.

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