Hundreds of vehicles were trapped in the road as some sections of the Donghae Expressway up and down the Donghae Expressway and access to the Misiryeong Passage Road were restricted due to heavy snowfall in the Yeongdong area of Gangwon on the 1st.
Road Corporation controls the entrance to Sokcho-Bukyangyang section
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As the Misiryeong East-West Passage Road was controlled on the 1st, when heavy snow fell in the mountains and east coast of Gangwon-do, employees at the Misiryeong Tollgate are bypassing vehicles. yunhap news
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According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, Gangwon-do, and Sokcho-si, from 4:40 pm on the same day, access to the Sokcho Intersection and Bukyangyang section of the Donghae Expressway was completely controlled. Accordingly, a vehicle attempting to enter the Seoul Yangyang Expressway upstream using this section detoured to the Inje Interchange or Hajodae Interchange by using the general national highway.
At the point about 200 to 300m ahead of the Sokcho Intersection on the Donghae Expressway, hundreds of vehicles followed by heavy trucks, vans, small trucks, and passenger cars slid on the snowy road. Authorities such as the Korea Expressway Corporation urgently introduced a forklift, cleared the snow, and secured one of the two lanes to move the vehicle.
Traffic accidents all over the Donghae Expressway… Vehicle isolation
– However, with heavy snowfall of over 20 cm in Sokcho and Yangyang, as well as intensifying snow, there was a situation in which vehicles could not come and go in the up and down lines of the Donghae Expressway. Hundreds of vehicles are known to be isolated in the 2km section between Sokcho and Bukyangyang Interchange.
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Hundreds of vehicles were trapped in the road in a snowy traffic accident near the Sokcho Intersection on the Donghae Expressway on the afternoon of the afternoon when heavy snow fell in the mountains and east coast of Gangwon-do. Photo Korea Expressway Corporation CCTV video capture
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On this afternoon, the road through the Misiryeong passage through Sokcho and Inje also turned into a huge parking lot as traffic accidents and traffic volume increased sharply. Some vehicles were unable to go or go on the road for about 3 to 4 hours. Eventually, the police blocked vehicle entry, opened the center line guardrail, and pulled the vehicle trapped in the upbound line to the downbound line.
Sokcho-Inje Misiryeong Pass road parking lot changed
– One driver said, “I heard a snow forecast while I was on the east coast and returned to Seoul, but I didn’t know that the situation would suddenly get worse. I have been stuck in the car for three hours. .
Gangwon-do and the police controlled the operation of passenger cars and trucks without Woldongjang-gu for the 38km section from the Hangyeryeong Nonhwa Intersection on National Route 44 to the Hangean Intersection and the 25km section from Jinburyeong Gwangsancho to Yongdae Intersection on Route 46. Both directions of Anbandegi, Wangsan-myeon, Gangneung-si and Geumdaebong-gil, Gohan-eup, Jeongseon-gun, are all under control.
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On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 1st, when heavy snow fell in the mountains and east coast of Gangwon, a vehicle is running a turtle near the Yangyang Interchange on the Donghae Expressway. Photo Yangyang-gun
– Traffic accidents, rescue and first aid reports were followed by heavy snow. From 6 am to 3:30 pm on that day, reports of 6 rescue cases and 38 first aid cases were received in the Gangwon-do area. Around 12:30 noon, a 100 ton rockfall accident occurred near Uiam Lake in Chuncheon, and emergency repair work was carried out.
44.4cm of snow falls in Misiryeong until 6 pm on the 1st
– As of 7 p.m. on the 1st, heavy snow warnings are in effect in the mountainous areas of central and northern Gangwon, the plains of Gangneung, Yangyang, Goseong, Sokcho, Hwacheon, and Cheorwon. Heavy snow warnings have been issued in the southern mountainous areas of Gangwon-do and in Jeongseon, Samcheok, and Donghae. As of 6 pm, snowfall is 44.4 cm in Misiryeong, 39.9 cm in Jinburyeong, 29.8 cm in Seorak-dong, 21.7 cm in Goseong prefecture, and 32.2 cm in the coast of Yanggu. The Meteorological Administration predicted that up to 40 cm of snow will fall until the afternoon of the 2nd, centering on the Yeongdong area.
Meanwhile, Gangwon-do provinces and cities and counties initiated snow removal work with emergency calls for employees. The Ministry of Public Administration and Security entered the first phase of emergency work at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, the heavy snow countermeasure, at 12:00 noon on the 1st.
Sokcho = Reporters Jinho Shin, Jinho Park, Jongkwon Choi [email protected]
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