SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Nine people were injured on Tuesday in a pileup involving 43 vehicles in western South Korea, reported Xinhua.
According to Yonhap news agency, the multiple collisions occurred at about 5:50 a.m. local time (2050 GMT Monday) on a highway near Goyang, west of the capital Seoul.
Nine drivers were wounded and taken to a nearby hospital.
Police and fire authorities controlled and cleared roads in the section of the accident, which caused traffic congestion in a three-km section.
It was presumed that the accident was caused by black ice, a thin layer of ice on the road made by melting snow.
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