01
Recently, Guangdong is indeed a bit uneven.
A few days ago, it was hit by a tornado and a hailstorm with a large bowl mouth, and all kinds of strong convective weather were raging, and even Cantonese people who had seen the world felt that they had nothing to love.
Finally, I waited until the May Day holiday, and finally I could escape for a short time, take a journey that I said, and go to other places to enjoy the sunshine and waves of the beach.
But who would have thought that the next catastrophe was gathering momentum?
On the first day of the holiday, that is, at about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, a highway pavement collapse accident occurred near K11+900m from Meizhou to Fujian on Guangdong Meilong Expressway (S12) (about 2 kilometers in the direction of the exit of Chayang Road).
It is reported that the highway where the accident occurred - Meizhou - Longyan Expressway, is a fast passage connecting Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, and it is also a relatively busy highway in normal times.
The road was completed and put into operation on December 30, 2006, with a total length of 58.28 kilometers, a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and a total investment of 2.107 billion yuan.
Witnesses said that the section of the collapse was exactly in the direction of Tai Po towards Chayang, Xihe and Longyan, Fujian, about 4 kilometers away from the Chayang Expressway.
It was early in the morning, and it was the first day of free tickets on the Xiaochang Holiday Expressway, and many car owners who didn't want to be congested during the day wanted to take advantage of this time to rush to their destinations overnight.
Therefore, on the Meron Expressway at that time, there were many more vehicles coming and going than usual.
But who would have thought that during the May Day holiday, which is as usual as in previous years, many people will never be able to reach their destination again.
02
After the accident, a Fujian netizen's "missing person notice" first attracted the attention of netizens.
The car this netizen is looking for is a black Volkswagen car with a cloud prefix.
He said that before the incident, five family members, including his own parents, drove back to Fujian from Guangxi, but at 11:39 p.m. on April 30, the family posted a location in the group to be faithful in Heyuan Lianping, and they could no longer be contacted.
The phones of the five people in the car have not been able to get through, and the rest of the family members are very worried, so he hopes that if netizens see this car, please call to inform them as soon as possible.
Subsequently, under this netizen's post, many strange netizens sent their blessings and expressed "I hope it's okay".
But then came bad news:
According to the official report, after preliminary verification on the spot, a total of more than 10 vehicles were trapped in the collapsed road section.
And the pictures of the scene transmitted from the front can be seen that many of the cars have been burned into empty shells, exuding an eerie burnt black.
The local authorities also organized rescue efforts at the first time of the incident, and many passengers in the vehicles in distress were also rescued.
But the picture is not encouraging.
According to official sources, the number of dead and wounded has reached several dozen, most of the injured are from Fujian, some of the injured are nearby residents, and most of the injuries are fractures and internal organ injuries.
It is enough to foresee that the crater of the collapse must not be shallow at that time, and many people suddenly fell into the high-speed car.
In addition, many passengers sitting in the back seat, most of them do not like to wear seat belts, and in their sleep, the sudden fall will make them overwhelmed, let alone grasp the handle next to them, maybe the casualties are so serious.
As for the thrilling scene at that time, many witnesses who survived the death are still in shock.
03
A netizen who experienced it first-hand said, "The first time I felt that death was so close, the distance was 100 meters."
At that time, she was driving the car on the way home, her husband was napping in the car, and saw that there were still 10 kilometers to get off the highway, she woke up her husband, and when she was 5 kilometers away from the highway intersection, she kept reminding herself that she was about to get home, and she must drive slowly.
Now it seems that I am really glad for her reminder, if she hadn't slowed down and stopped the car in front of her when she was 100 meters away from the collapsed road, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
If it weren't for this reminder, when she was about to get down the road, she suddenly relaxed her vigilance and accelerated to sprint, then the distance of 100 meters would not be the distance between them and death, and they would most likely become the victims of this tragedy.
So she said that when she knew that a few cars had fallen in front of her, she heard the explosions incessantly, and her tears couldn't stop falling.
This is the truest line between life and death.
Another netizen who was also lucky said that at that time, except for the driver, the other seven people in the car were sleeping.
Suddenly, there was a "boom", feeling that the vehicle was out of control, and the seven people woke up instantly, and couldn't help screaming loudly, and then they heard that they had fallen into a big hole in the section they had just passed.
And the cars that passed by almost at the same time as them were all out of control, and the tires also burst.
After calming down, everyone got out of the car to check the situation and was scared into a cold sweat, it is likely that when they passed through that section of the road, the roadside had cracked, or there were small potholes, which caused many cars parallel to them or before and after them to lose control.
If they had been a little later, they would have fallen in with the landslide. "The pit is about four or five meters long."
At present, that section of the road has been closed, and many cars passing through this section of the road have to get off the road and detour. The car that was on this section of the road at the time of the incident also followed the police car from the emergency lane in an orderly manner.
04
Just when netizens were saddened by the dead and injured, the relevant departments immediately launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.
According to the preliminary investigation, it is likely that it is due to geological factors.
In other words, recently, Guangdong has been affected by continuous heavy rainfall, and many highways and national highways have been damaged to varying degrees.
The road section of the collapse is already complex in geological conditions, there are hidden dangers such as faults and karst caves, and the soil will definitely have a serious impact on the stability of the roadbed after continuous rainfall and the impact of rising groundwater level.
As for the questions raised by netizens, whether the collapsed section of the road is a tofu slag project?
If the construction party of the road section at that time did have similar problems, then the relevant responsible person will definitely be investigated for criminal responsibility and pay the corresponding legal price.
Just put these aside for the time being, every time I see such news, I can't help but sigh: the normal state of life is gratuitous.
It's like a very popular saying on the Internet: you never know which one will come first, the accident or tomorrow.
is more like the cautionary saying in "One Hundred Years of Solitude":
The Grim Reaper had been following in his footsteps, sniffing his whereabouts, but had not yet made up his mind to deliver the final blow.
Therefore, every day of human life, the god of death is merciful.
05
Do you remember a similar collapse accident that occurred in Linfen, Shanxi Province almost half a year ago?
It was also late at night, and at 10 p.m., a local construction site was still brightly lit.
Perhaps for those who are accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, that day is undoubtedly an ordinary and ordinary day, but who would have thought that the accident would be so silent under the cover of night?
At the time of the accident, a nearly 30-meter-high column building was pouring concrete, when suddenly the support model fell off, the scaffolding collapsed, and 7 construction workers fell down in an instant, and were engulfed by reinforced concrete in the blink of an eye.
When the people next to him reacted, a big hole had been smashed out of the scene, and there were no figures of several people in sight.
Just when the netizens who saw the news for the first time were anxiously waiting for the rescue results, they didn't expect the bad news to come immediately in the early morning of the next day:
Three people are known to have been killed.
The collapse area is about 9 square meters, the volume of reinforced concrete is about 30 cubic meters, and the concrete is close to solidification, which makes it difficult to break and rescue people......
Although it is a short sentence, it is shocking to see people, "30 cubic meters of concrete is close to solidifying", what kind of abusive cause of death.
In other words, perhaps the three people did not die when they fell, but were suffocated by the gradually solidifying concrete.
Although the cause of their death was not detailed in the report, it was enough to foresee their suffering.
What's even more unacceptable is that the remaining 4 people didn't wait for the miracle to come, and after a whole day of rescue, they still got four words that were colder than winter:
No one survived.
In this way, they slept on an ordinary working day, and they needed to repeat the work every day.
06
Although the details of the victims were not detailed in the report, after thinking about it, everyone knew that if it were not for the pressure of life, if it were not for the desire to make a little more money, who would still be working on the construction site at 10 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Behind the death of 7 people is the disintegration of 7 families.
Just like those cars that unfortunately fell into the collapsed road section in the early morning of the first day of the May Day holiday, if the people in the car don't want to take advantage of the long holiday to go home to see, they don't want to take advantage of the fact that the highway is just free in the early hours of the morning, and they don't want to find a few days to release pressure in the busy work......
Then they won't be in a hurry in the early morning, and they won't be in trouble.
Therefore, behind every misfortune, there is its own sadness and difficulty.
The hemp rope is broken in detail, and the bad luck is looking for the miserable.
Especially when death unfortunately strikes, it is not only them who stand behind them, but the whole family.
They also have children, wives, and parents, and they have been fathers, husbands, and sons.
But when the Grim Reaper rushed to them without saying hello, it was a luxury for them to even say their last goodbye.
And they are only the tip of the iceberg when "death does not come easily".
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, about 8.9 million people die in the country every year, of which more than 2.3 million are unnatural deaths.
That's an average of 6,301 accidental deaths every day.
There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.
Every accident around us is constantly telling us:
The truth of this world is that no one can live this life painlessly and without disasters.
Therefore, when you truly understand the impermanence of life, you can cherish and treat every daily life.
07
In the book "The Funeral of a Muslim", such a story is written.
The protagonist Han Ziqi, whose parents died when he was a child, accidentally broke a jade bowl when he stayed at the house of his compatriot Liang Yiqing on the way to the holy land of Mecca.
In order to make amends, he stayed to worship Liang Yiqing as a teacher, and Liang Yiqing also treated him like a son, and taught him all the jade skills he had learned all his life.
In order to have a masterpiece of his own Guanshan in his lifetime, Liang Yiqing took over the cumbersome "Zheng He's Navigation Chart".
The master and apprentice worked tirelessly, day and night, putting all their minds into the production of the treasure ship.
Finally, after three years of hard work, just when he was about to complete his masterpiece, Liang Yiqing accidentally touched Zheng He's right arm on the jade carving because of physical exhaustion.
Seeing that three years of hard work was about to be abandoned, Liang Yiqing was grief-stricken, and finally died of anger because of the rush to attack his heart.
This made Han Ziqi fall into the predicament of not being able to complete it alone, and even Qizhen Zhai will face bankruptcy.
But in any case, the days have to go on, Han Ziqi finally completed the production of the treasure ship with his own efforts, walked out of the trough, lived a rich life, and had a pair of children.
Just when he thought that good days were about to begin, his beloved daughter Crescent Moon was diagnosed with a serious heart attack.
After many treatments, Xinyue still died young, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Han Ziqi again.
Since then, he has no interest in doing anything, either shaking his head and sighing, or sitting alone for a long time.
Fortunately, after experiencing a thousand sails, he calmly accepted all the misfortunes in life, and opened his heart to his wife for the first time, repenting of his mistake of abandoning his wife and children.
After getting his wife's forgiveness, he closed his eyes peacefully.
Therefore, looking back at Han Ziqi's life, his most glorious moment was not when he made a treasure boat alone, but learned to grow in regret and let go in perseverance.
As John Scholes said:
There is no incurable wound, there is no sinking that cannot be ended, and everything that is lost will come back in another way.
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