Over 80 centimeters of unseasonable snow dumped in South Korea

Ten people were injured in a 17-car pileup on a snowy expressway connecting
Seoul and the eastern coastal town of Yangyang, Saturday.

With over 80 centimeters of unseasonable snow dumped on the area Saturday, the
multi-vehicle crash occurred at 8:33 a.m. on the eastbound side of the
Seoul-Yangyang Expressway near a tunnel in Yangyang, some 215 kilometers east
of the capital.

Authorities said a total of 17 cars collided on a slippery section of the
road. Four people in one sedan and six others in a van were taken to a nearby
hospital with injuries of varying severity.

As the vehicles were scattered across two lanes, the affected section on the
expressway was blocked off for about 90 minutes, causing severe congestion for
eastbound traffic.

with information from  koreatimes.co.kr