We know that once a highway collapse occurs, it often causes traffic jams, but there are generally not many vehicles destroyed, and if a highway collapses accident, it will cause a series of catastrophic accidents, which is very easy to cause serious consequences of mass deaths and injuries.
Take the collapse accident that occurred in the early morning of the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Guangdong, which caused 18 cars to fall and 19 dead and 30 injured.
Judging from the scene, some cars have been broken into shape, some have half of their bodies buried in the ground, and some cars have turned over. And the entire collapsed site was like a huge burial ground, which swallowed 18 cars in an instant. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the high-speed car did not have time to take effective measures, so it rushed into the collapse, and the cars behind rushed in one after another, and many cars were even stacked on top of each other. Due to the force of the impact, several of the cars caught fire in an instant. In addition, the cars that fell were generally seriously deformed, and the people in the car could not escape at all, which was too painful and sad.
Coincidentally, on the afternoon of December 26, 2023, a collapse accident also occurred on the road surface in the direction of Taiyuan on the Erguang Expressway in Chayouqian Banner, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia.
We know that highways built in mountainous areas are most worried about "landslide" accidents rather than "collapse" accidents, because landslide accidents are "natural disasters" that cannot be prevented and have a high incidence rate, but generally do not cause a large number of casualties. The collapse accident is often a "man-made disaster", which seems to be caused by highway quality problems, and once an accident occurs, it is very easy to cause mass deaths and injuries. So why the sudden collapse of the highway will cause so many casualties, there may be many factors in this, take the collapse of the Meida Expressway in Guangdong as an example.
1. Natural disasters: Guangdong has been affected by continuous heavy rainfall and extremely bad weather recently, and serious soil erosion will occur in a certain section of Meilong Expressway to Fujian, which will eventually cause natural geological disasters and lead to road collapse.
2. Man-made accidents: whether there is a quality problem in the expressway, and whether the construction unit is cutting corners, which leads to the substandard quality of the expressway. It may be that under the effect of "natural disasters", there will be problems in places where the quality is not up to standard, and this series of doubts needs to be further investigated and verified by relevant departments.
3. Time: During the "May Day" holiday, people are eager to return home or travel, and whether the car in distress is speeding. If the driver is more attentive and drives at a normal speed, even if the first few cars have an accident, will the cars behind be able to avoid the disaster in time?
It seems that although the highway collapse accident is only an occasional incident, in fact, the damage caused by the highway collapse is far more serious than we think. It should be said that "collapse" and "collapse" are completely different concepts.
Whether the road collapse accident in the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Guangdong Province is a "natural disaster" or a "man-made disaster", our netizens want to know the truth, and hope that the relevant departments will thoroughly investigate and give an explanation to the victims and the society!