VIDEO: Drunk captain crushes his boat against a vehicle bridge in South Korea

A Russian freighter crashed on a bridge on Thursday on the southeastern coast of South Korea, in the port of Busan, when they sailed in the opposite direction to their destination and had a drunken captain aboard, according to the Korean Coast Guard (KCG for its acronym in English).

The Seagrand ship, carrying 1,415 tons of iron spools bound for Vladivostok, crashed on the Gwangan Bridge, crossed by a highway, around 16:20 local time without causing injuryalthough the lower part of the structure, partially closed for safety reasons, was damaged.

The collision affected the ship's deck and caused a hole five meters in diameter in the structure of the bridge. Before the cargo ship crashes on the viaduct, he had already collided with a yacht.

The images of the event show how vehicles traveling on the road that crosses the bridge slow down when the gigantic ship approaches the structure.

On impact, one of the cranes on the vessel used to move the containers was overturned and a man standing on the bridge, a few meters from the damaged crane, ran towards safety. Although there was no serious injury.

The captain may be sentenced to three years imprisonmentn and a penalty of approximately 23,000 euros (more than 26,000 dollars).

After the accident, the freighter sailed again at sea, but was stopped by a coastal patrol.

According to the Coast Guard, who interviewed the crew, the ship's captain had a blood alcohol level of 0.086% when the legal limit in the country was 0.03%, according to the newspaper The Korea Herald.

Consumption of alcohol on board is not punishable by law until the person ingesting it has control of the shipsaid a KCG official, who is trying to determine if the captain was directing the navigation at the time of the accident.

They also study why the ship was moving in the opposite direction to normal. Coastal authorities also claimed that the Seagrand struck another ship moored in the harbor about 40 minutes before the collision with the bridge.