With a total investment of 2.1 billion yuan, why has the Meida Expressway repeatedly collapsed? The design defect problem, or the road maintenance in the later stage is not in place?
At 2:10 a.m. on May 1, the calm of the K11+900m section of the K11+900m section from Dapu to Fujian on the Guangdong Meilong Expressway was broken by a sudden disaster.
A road collapse of only 17.9 meters caused the death of 36 innocent lives, and a human tragedy was quietly staged at this moment.
The scene of the accident, the line between life and death
On the night of the May Day holiday, there was an endless stream of vehicles on the Meida Expressway, and many people were driving towards their destinations with great expectations.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the three lanes on one side of the highway disappeared almost instantly, replaced by a very large crater with broken guardrails scattered around the edges, and the scene was as terrifying as a disaster movie.
One witness recalled: "I saw the car in front of me suddenly disappear, followed by fire and smoke, and the shock still haunts me." ”
Because of the rain and the night, the driving vision was greatly reduced, and the vehicles fell into the pit one after another like dominoes, and the fire spread rapidly, and the explosions were one after another, lighting up the entire night sky, and the scene was chaotic.
Those who are brave and brave
In times of desperation, several drivers, realizing the danger ahead, took immediate action regardless of their personal safety.
Mr. Zhang was one of them, braking and getting out of the car, waving and shouting loudly, successfully stopping several vehicles that were about to enter the collapse area.
"I was thinking, I can save one by one. Mr. Zhang recalled afterwards, with a bit of happiness and heaviness in his tone.
At the same time, in a convoy of tourists from Shenzhen to Fujian, Ms. Chen's friends were lucky to avoid the disaster by stopping in the service area, but those cars that happened to pass by were not spared, and their fate is still uncertain, which is worrying.
Rescue assembled, race against time
After the disaster, the public security, emergency, fire and health departments quickly activated the emergency response mechanism, and the lanes in both directions of the Meida Expressway were immediately closed, and the rescue forces were quickly assembled to carry out the rescue in a race against time.
Dig into the causes, the reasons behind the tragedy
The reason why this accident caused such a tragic consequence is that in addition to the fact that the time of the collapse coincided with the early morning of the holiday when the traffic flow was at its peak, and the line of sight was limited.
In April last year, there was also a collapse on the Meida Expressway, and reinforcement construction was carried out.
Why didn't we pay attention to it at that time, because if there was a collapse in one of them, we should inspect the Meida Expressway in its entirety! After all, this is a major infrastructure project, and who can be responsible for any problems?
Netizens are hotly discussed
This accident is the largest accident that has occurred in recent years, and netizens expressed their silence for the people who died in this accident, and there are also relatives of netizens who died in this accident.
——A netizen's relatives passed away in this accident: The father of my child who died in the accident was my child, and my child was only four months old!
- So many cars have fallen, 36 people have died, more than 30 people have been injured, almost all of them are 4 people in a car, and the whole family is gone, I hope everyone will return safely!
——Some netizens recommend the night driving mantra to everyone: go gray and not white, and stop when you see black. The gray is the road, the white is the water, and the black is the pit.
- Many netizens who can't contact their relatives are asking for help online.
Write at the end
The time point of this "catastrophe from the sky", in the middle of the night, is the first day of the holiday, and the traffic flow on the highway is comparable to the Spring Festival homecoming tide, at this time such an accident must have huge casualties, if it is usual, there should not be such a big casualty.
As for the cause of the accident, geology, weather, and engineering quality problems, investigating them one by one is like a decryption game, but this is not a simple "finding differences", but a major matter of human life.
As the old saying goes, "one point of prevention is better than ten points of treatment", we should also ponder how to make this "road of life" truly solid as a rock, rather than a tofu scum that collapses when we step on it?
Finally, I hope that the deceased rest in peace, and the living are safe!#广东梅大高速路面塌方灾害已致36人死亡#