A Night on Olympic-daero Filled with Beer Smell... 4,000 Bottles Shattered

Driver: "Wing body opened while driving, beer spilled"

About 4,000 bottles of beer spilled in the middle of Olympic-daero, causing vehicle traffic to be halted for four hours.

Bottled beer spilled from a truck driving on the southern end of World Cup Bridge on Olympic-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
Photo by Yonhap News

According to Yonhap News on the 6th, at around 2:46 a.m. that day, approximately 4,000 bottles of beer and 200 plastic crates spilled onto the road from a 25-ton truck driving near the southern end of World Cup Bridge on Olympic-daero in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

As a result, all four lanes heading toward Gimpo were completely closed. The Seoul city government deployed about 20 public officials and 10 vehicles to collect the beer crates and broken glass fragments, conducting overnight cleanup operations.

The site cleanup was completed around 7 a.m., four hours after the accident, and traffic has since resumed.

The truck involved in the accident was a so-called "wing body truck," which lifts the cover of the cargo bed like wings. The police are investigating the exact cause of the accident based on the driver's statement that "the wing body suddenly opened while driving, causing the beer to spill."

Earlier, in February, a similar accident occurred on the Cheonan-Nonsan Expressway, where about 200 beer crates spilled from a 25-ton wing body truck, causing traffic congestion for over four hours.

At that time, the truck driver was changing lanes to overtake a slow-moving vehicle ahead. It is known that the beer crates spilled onto the road after the center of gravity shifted to one side, breaking through the wing body.

A police official said, "The driver also made a sudden lane change," adding, "If he had driven slowly, the center of gravity wouldn't have shifted."

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