Three women were killed and another woman was injured when their car fell into the sea at a port in South Korea's southwestern area, police said Saturday.
The accident occurred around 9:33 a.m. at Paengmok Port when their car failed to properly make a U-turn and drove off a two-lane road, plunging into the sea, police said.
A 51-year-old woman, who injured her left arm in the crash, got out through a window and was rescued by nearby people.
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Three other women in their 40s received CPR after being picked up by police but were pronounced dead after arriving at a nearby hospital, said Cho Man-yong, a police official at a station in the southwestern port city of Mokpo.
Footage from a security camera seen by Yonhap News Agency showed that the Hyundai SUV the women were driving wanted to make a U-turn, apparently to get in a line of cars that were waiting to board a ferry.
Instead of completing the maneuver, however, the car only turned 90 degrees before driving through a concrete barrier and off the road.
It was not immediately clear why the car failed to stop. (Yonhap)
