Electric Vehicle Completely Burned After Colliding with Shock Absorber at Highway Tollgate...2 Dead

Incident Occurred at Seobusan Tollgate in the Direction of Changwon

At around 11 p.m. on the 4th, a passenger car entering the Namhae Expressway Branch Line 2 West Busan Tollgate in Beombang-dong, Gangseo-gu, Busan, collided with a shock absorber.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jung-wan] An electric vehicle that collided with a shock absorber while driving on the Namhae Expressway was engulfed in flames immediately after the collision, resulting in the deaths of two occupants.

According to the Busan Police Agency on the 5th, around 11 PM the previous day, an Ioniq passenger car heading toward Changwon on the second branch of the Namhae Expressway in Gangseo-gu, Busan, crashed into the shock absorber at the Seobusan Tollgate.

As a result of the accident, two people died: a driver in their 30s and one passenger in their 40s. Firefighters who responded to the report extinguished the fire around 11:15 PM, but the vehicle was already completely burned.

The fire was put out about 15 minutes after it started, around 11:15 PM. After extinguishing the vehicle, firefighters installed a mobile flooding tank and submerged the vehicle to prevent an explosion of the lithium battery inside.

The police and fire authorities are investigating the detailed circumstances of the accident by interviewing witnesses.

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