Yangju highway incident

When

2002

Kind

Road accident

Coordinates

37.86° N, 126.95° E

Description

2002 double-homicide in South Korea

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

2002 accidental deaths in South Korea

The Yangju highway incident, also known as the Yangju training accident or Highway 56 Accident, occurred on June 13, 2002, in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. A United States Army armored vehicle-launched bridge, returning to base in Uijeongbu on a public road after training maneuvers in the countryside, struck and killed two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls, Shin Hyo-soon (Korean: 신효순) and Shim Mi-seon (심미선).

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