The road surface of Meida Expressway in Guangdong collapsed in the early morning, and 23 vehicles fell and caught fire and exploded. (Picture source: Video screenshot)
[Watch China News, May 2, 2024](Watch comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Li Muzi) The first day of the May Day holidayGuangdong Meida ExpresswayThe road collapsed suddenly and tragically. 23 vehicles fell and caught fire and exploded. 48 people have been killed so far.die,30 peopleInjuried.The official said that the injured were sent to the hospital and there was no life-threatening danger, and that the rescue had been completed. However, the number of deaths and the number of fallen vehicles reported by official media were still changing, which triggered a stir in mainland China.netizendissatisfied.
In the early morning of May 1, a road surface collapsed on the Meida Expressway in Guangdong. The death toll reported by Chinese state media ranged from an initial 31 people sent to hospital to 19 dead, then to 24, 36, and 48 people. The number of vehicles falling in is also constantly changing, 18, 20, 23. Official media claimed that the injured were not life-threatening and that the search and rescue had ended. However, the death toll was increasing. Many netizens still reported to mainland media that many relatives were still missing.
According to CCTV News on the 2nd, at about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, a road collapse accident occurred on the highway near K11+900m on the Guangdong Mei-Da Expressway in the direction of Fujian. As of 5:30 a.m. on the 2nd, 23 vehicles had been found. It fell, 36 people died and 30 people were injured (non-life-threatening).
In the comment section of the official media article, many mainland netizens questioned this. Netizens in Hebei said, “When the death toll was 19, we said the injured were not life-threatening! Why has the death toll increased to 36 now?” Netizens in Guangdong said, “This is their propaganda method, they will not announce the funeral secretly.” Anhui netizen said, “I was just wondering why the number of people is still increasing? Didn’t they say that the people in the hospital were not in danger? It turns out that the increase was caused by excavation.”
Hunan netizens said, “When the death toll was reported at 19, only more than 30 people were sent to the hospital. Now the death toll is 36, and there are still 30 people being rescued in the hospital. This can only mean that another car fell down. Otherwise, what was said yesterday? A total of 54 people were involved.” Jiangsu netizens “changed things again today. They didn’t say whether they were from the hospital or not. I feel like they were covering up the news.” “Yesterday’s news said that the person in the hospital was not life-threatening, so they refused to tell me.” “It must have been concealed. He died yesterday.” It’s more than that number.”
According to the latest report from Xinhua News Agency, Guangdong Meizhou press conference, so far, the landslide disaster in the Chayang section of the Meizhou-Dalian Expressway in Guangdong has killed 48 people, and the DNA of three more people has been further compared and confirmed, and 30 people were injured, with no life-threatening injuries. .
The section of Guangdong Expressway involved was built less than 10 years ago, and relevant leaders supervised and inspected it within a week.
According to Jiemian News, the Meizhou-Dalian Expressway has a total length of 61.3 kilometers and is constructed using a two-way four-lane standard with a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The total investment is approximately 5.637 billion yuan. The proportion of bridges and tunnels along the entire line reached 51%, which was the highest among mountainous highways in Guangdong Province at that time.
Meizhou is located at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces. Its economy is relatively underdeveloped, with a GDP of less than 150 billion yuan, ranking last in the province. The Meizhou-Dabu Expressway is of great significance to Meizhou, especially to Dabu County. In 2011, the Guangdong Provincial Inspection Team went to Meizhou and pointed out that the construction of the Meizhou-Dalian Expressway is related to the smooth realization of the goal of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government of “county-county expressway access”.
On December 31, 2014, the second phase of the Meida Expressway and the east extension line were completed and opened to traffic, totaling 33.6 kilometers, marking the completion of the entire line. This is the first expressway running through Dabu County and the third expressway connecting Guangdong and Fujian. highway. The section where the accident occurred is located in the second phase and east extension of Mei-Da Expressway. Based on this calculation, the road section where the accident occurred was less than 10 years old, and the project builder and operator are both companies under the Guangdong Provincial Communications Group.
In fact, on April 24, one week before the above-mentioned accident, Cai Conghua, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangdong Communications Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., the controlling shareholder of Guangdong Dachao Expressway, led a team to Guangdong Expressway for investigation and supervision.
At present, many blood donation points in Meizhou City have been opened. Officials call on more volunteers and people with physical conditions to actively participate in blood donation. Many people go to blood donation points to donate blood. Many netizens commented, “Those who donate blood are amazing.” Some netizens in Beijing also questioned, “Aren’t there only 30 injured people in total?” Netizens in Inner Mongolia said, “You can’t donate blood, just use it to make money.”
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