During the May Day holiday, people were looking forward to going to the tourist destination, but they did not expect an unexpected event to occur, bringing infinite grief.
On the morning of May 1, a number of authoritative media reported that at about 2 o'clock in the morning today, the K11+900m road collapse of the S12 Meizhou to Fujian direction of Guangdong Meida Expressway. In order to ensure safety, it is now closed in both directions.
At around 9 a.m. on May 1, police in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, responded to reporters that the accident had killed one person and injured 30 others.
At 11:45 a.m. on May 1, after on-site verification, a total of 18 vehicles were trapped, involving 49 casualties, of which 19 were dead and 30 were being treated in hospitals.
At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of May 1, the number of vehicles killed was updated to 20, and the number of casualties was updated to 54, the death toll rose from the original 19 to 24, and the remaining 30 people are still being treated in hospitals, but fortunately, there is no life-threatening situation.
It can be seen that at around 2 a.m. on May 1, a collapse did occur on the Meizhou Expressway in Guangdong, which has caused a serious cost of 24 deaths.
And authoritative media and netizens also exposed the tragic video of the scene at that time. The footage shows that a raging fire broke out on the highway, many fire trucks rushed to the scene, and many private cars were also stopped outside the safety range.
Among them, some witnesses said that about seven or eight vehicles fell under the bridge because of the collapse of the road. Later, another witness said that he arrived at the accident section at about 2 o'clock, saw the fire in front of him, saw fire trucks working, and a number of private cars were stopped near the front, guessing that there should be a serious accident in the road ahead.
After the incident was exposed, a large number of netizens also left messages in the comment area of relevant reports, including survivors and suspected family members.
Some survivors said that they passed through the section of the road where the incident occurred at about 2 o'clock in the morning, but fortunately, they passed ahead of schedule and were not killed.
And some netizens said that their father returned to Fujian from Guangxi, and now he can't be contacted, and his family is very worried, hoping that everyone will contact him after seeing the license plate number provided.
For such a serious accident, some people are happy, some people are immersed in grief, and netizens are questioning the quality of the engineering of the highway section where the accident occurred.
Some netizens bluntly said: How could the highway collapse, is it a tofu scum project?
Some netizens said: Guangdong has recently had extreme weather, tornadoes, typhoons, and heavy rainstorms have continued one after another, and the places on the backing mountains have collapsed.
Some netizens provided professional analysis, saying that the local soil sand content of the highway was 70%. If it rains for a week, it is easy to cause a landslide, which is really not caused by the high-speed engineering quality problem.
At present, the departments of fire protection, public security, emergency response and medical care have rushed to the scene to investigate and deal with it, hoping to investigate and understand, return the truth to the public, and let the dead souls feel at ease.