The road surface collapsed on the Meida Expressway in Guangdong, causing multiple vehicles to fall, explode and catch fire. (Picture source: Video screenshot)
[Watch China News on May 1, 2024](Watch comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Li Muzi) In the early morning of May 1,Guangdong Meida ExpresswaySudden occurrence on the roadcollapse20 vehicles fell and exploded into flames, causing 24 deaths and 30 injuries. Although the authorities announced that the search and rescue was over, there are still many people looking for them.missing relatives.
Officials say the rescue work has ended, but many netizens’ relatives are still missing.
According to CCTV news reports, at about 2:10 on May 1, a highway road collapse occurred near Dapu on the Meida Expressway in Guangdong in the direction of Fujian (about 2 kilometers from the Chayang section exit). The collapsed road surface was about 17.9 meters long and covered an area of 17.9 meters. Approximately 184.3 square meters. As of 15:00 on May 1, the accident caused a total of 20 vehicles to collapse, involving a total of 54 people, of which 24 were confirmed dead and 30 were being treated in the hospital with no life-threatening injuries.
According to the “Xiaoxiang Morning News” report, since the accident, many netizens have posted requests for help, saying that their relatives who may have passed by the road section at the time of the accident have lost contact to this day. However, staff from the Meizhou Traffic Police Detachment said the rescue work was over.
Some netizens sent messages saying, “Has anyone seen the car Yue B8M2**?” “My uncle also returned to Yongding last night, and now everyone in the car has also lost contact. All phones have been turned off. He can still be contacted at 12 o’clock. Later, When I tried to contact him again, my phone was turned off. My family had already reported the crime… I contacted everyone in the car and the phone numbers were lost. It was raining heavily and the surveillance cameras couldn’t capture the license plates. It had already been ten hours. If there was a traffic jam, I would have arrived home early.”
Another netizen, Ms. Cai, looked for the license plate of Yun A488** and said that her uncle’s family of 5, a total of 2 adults and 3 children, were in the car. Neither the mobile phone nor the phone watch could currently contact them. My uncle sent a location to his family at nearly 12:00 on the evening of the 30th, showing that he was near Lianping County. At present, neither the Meizhou City Emergency Management Bureau nor the emergency department of Dabu County People’s Hospital have listed these five people in the list of injured people.
At around 2 pm on the 1st, staff from the Meizhou Traffic Police Detachment said that the rescue work had ended and it was still raining at the scene. “Some of the cars that fell were on fire. The appearance and color of the car were so burned that it was impossible to verify. All the people who should be rescued were rescued and those who should be sent to the hospital were sent.”
Witness: The wheel scraped into a crack in the ground and the tire blew out. Fortunately, I got through before the collapse.
Based on reports from mainland media such as the Beijing News, Jimu News, and The Paper, the police revealed that most of the injured were Fujianese, and some of the injured were nearby residents. The accident occurred while they were driving through the area.
A woman who passed by the road section where the accident occurred before the collapse said that her family drove by the accident site in the early morning of the 1st. At that time, her husband was driving a car and she and her children were sleeping in the car. As a result, the car suddenly had a puncture, which woke her and her children up. “I got out of the car and checked and found that the road had caved in. The children were frightened.”
The woman recalled that when the car passed by, the road surface had not completely collapsed, but there were cracks. Her husband thought it was a puddle and turned the steering wheel to avoid it. Unexpectedly, the right wheel still scratched the crack in the ground and caused a puncture. “The right tire and the wheel hub were scrapped. Fortunately, I rushed over immediately before the collapse, and the car behind suffered a disaster.”
A car owner passing by the road where the incident occurred said that at about 2 a.m., he drove near the road where the incident occurred and saw many cars turning back in the opposite direction. He learned that the highway ahead had collapsed, and he followed other vehicles in the opposite direction back to the service area. Then get off the expressway and take the national highway home. After communicating with the car owners present, we learned that many cars fell from the highway, and some of them caught fire.
Public information shows that the Guangdong Meida Expressway is an expressway connecting Meijiang District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province and Dabu County. Construction started on January 11, 2010, and was completed and operational on December 31, 2014. The Mei-Da Expressway is a two-way four-lane standard construction with a total investment of approximately 5.637 billion yuan.
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At around 2:10 pm on May 1, 2024, a road surface collapse occurred near K11+900 meters from Dabu to Fujian K11 on the Meida Expressway in Guangdong, China (about 2 kilometers away from the exit of the Chayang section). A total of 18 vehicles were involved in the accident, and a total of 49 people were involved, 19 of whom were confirmed dead, and 30 people were rushed to the hospital. Currently, their lives are not in danger. The collapsed road surface is about 17.9 meters long and covers an area of about 184.3 square meters! pic.twitter.com/72EglthMHH— Luo Xiang (@LUOXIANGZY) May 1, 2024
In response to the Guangdong expressway road collapse accident, a netizen who was suspected to have knowledge said, “We travel as a family during holidays. It makes me sad to think about it. It is a shoddy project that has already collapsed once before. I just tried to make repairs and it collapsed again.” . Many netizens lamented, “Oh, we waited so hard for the holidays, but the facts came out on the first day. May the deceased rest in peace and the injured recover soon!” “You never know which will come first, tomorrow or the accident. This May Day has become a… The deadly May Day! So go ahead and cherish it!”
It is worth mentioning that according to a report by Dawan News on May 1, on April 30, some netizens discovered that there were multiple holes on the deck of a bridge in Neixiang County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. The video shows that there are multiple holes in an asphalt bridge deck, electric vehicles are parked beside the guardrail of the bridge deck, and electric vehicles are passing by on the bridge deck. Neixiang County Government staff said that the bridge was a newly built bridge and had not yet been completely completed, and the hole appeared at the expansion joint of the bridge.
In response to this, some Henan netizens responded, “Why is the opening ceremony held when the construction is not completed?” “Can there be an opening ceremony without handover of work?” “The opening ceremony has been held, which means it has been accepted, right? If not,” “Loopholes, are the steel plates connected at the expansion joints omitted?” Guangxi netizens asked, “It has not been completely completed. Why is it not completed before the opening to traffic? Is this logical?”
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