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At around 2:10 on May 1, a landslide occurred on the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, killing 48 people and injuring 30 people, including children.
After the accident, the Meizhou municipal government held a press conference, at which a person in charge called the incident a "disaster" and called on people to strengthen safety awareness and monitoring to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
After the press conference, the secretary of the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and the mayor bowed three times in the direction of Chayang, and expressed condolences to the families of the victims for the "disaster".
This move attracted national attention for a while, and even went on the hot search on Weibo, and exploded in the comment area.
So how serious is this accident?
Why did the Meizhou municipal government call this a "disaster", and what kind of alarm did it trigger?
Why did the comment area explode?
1. Accident.
At around 2:10 on May 1, a landslide accident occurred on the Chayang section of Meida Expressway in Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province.
A total of 48 people were killed and 30 injured, including children, who were mostly tourists on a tour bus with 45 people on board, including the driver, most of whom were returning from Meizhou, Guangdong province.
The cause of the accident was a large-scale collapse of the highway subgrade in the Chayang section, which was called a "disaster" by the Meizhou municipal government.
The incident has also attracted nationwide attention, with some people even saying that "this is a bit strange".
In fact, this is not without reason, and some people on the Internet have questioned the accident, "This is not the first time that this kind of accident has happened in the Chayang road section, why did the local government not strengthen the roadbed here early?"
In fact, before this, there had been many roadbed collapse accidents near the Chayang road section, and during the Spring Festival, a passenger said after the collapse accident that the local government should repair the roadbed here as soon as possible to avoid similar accidents.
It is understood that in November 2017, there was a road collapse accident along the Chayang Road section, when the collapse was still a construction site, and the accident did not cause casualties, and the local department closed the landslide.
In November 2019, there was a landslide accident on the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Meixian District, which injured one person.
However, this did not attract the attention of the local government until June 2020, when another roadbed in the Chayang section collapsed.
In this accident, a car carrying four people fell directly into the deep pool, and finally the upstream and downstream rescued two people, and reported to the local government at that time that the roadbed of the Chayang road section had been seriously damaged and needed to be repaired as soon as possible.
However, the local government did not seem to react to this, and it was not until March 2021 that another road collapse accident occurred along the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway, and the local government took the matter seriously and decided to strengthen the roadbed of the Chayang road section.
However, after the accident, the local government called the incident a "disaster", what happened?
Why does the local government consider this a "disaster"?
In fact, before this, the local government had conducted many inspections, but did not find any major safety hazards in the Chayang road section, and after the accident, the local government sent high-level professionals to inspect the roadbed of the Chayang road section.
Judging from the inspection results, the reason for the collapse accident in the Chayang road section was because of the continuous rainfall in the local area, the road subgrade had a significant subsidence, and finally a large-scale collapse occurred, which is also the reason why the local government called the incident a "disaster".
The second and third bows are heavy in mourning.
After the press conference, Wu Weixiong, secretary of the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee, and Wei Zhenjiang, mayor of Meizhou, bowed three times in the direction of Chayang and expressed heavy condolences to the families of the victims.
@咖啡下午茶: "Mourn the victims and remind everyone not to have such a dangerous accident again." ”
@蔡君翔: "If this kind of thing is not dealt with as soon as possible, more people will die here." ”
@悲伤的海绵: "In deep mourning, government departments should pay more attention to this kind of accident and strengthen monitoring to avoid the recurrence of such accidents." ”
A local government worker also expressed his condolences on Weibo, and he @ a local leader: "Please be sure to strengthen the work of the team under your leadership to prevent similar accidents from happening again." ”
3. Netizens fry, calling for strengthening safety awareness.
After the accident, many netizens had a heated discussion about it, @小可爱的心: "There have been many landslides on the road section, why doesn't the local government deal with the accident?"
@火星人来自地球: "The local government should pay more attention to infrastructure construction, especially these transportation facilities. ”
@我是爱喝奶茶的大雄: "For such key road sections, the local government should also strengthen monitoring and prevent this kind of accident from happening again." ”
@沙雕二人组: "I hope that the local government will take this accident as a lesson and strengthen the supervision of the quality of the project to avoid the recurrence of such accidents in the future." ”
@爱看电影的豆腐脑: "For the occurrence of this kind of accident, drivers should also be reminded not to drive at night, because the visibility of night driving is poor and accidents are easy to occur." ”
Regarding the heated discussion of netizens, @小小小小爱: "For the hot discussion of netizens, every comment you make is the best supervision of the local government and the best consolation for the families of the victims, thank you." ”
@追风少女: "For the occurrence of this accident, I would like to express my deep condolences to the victims, and I would like to remind everyone to strengthen safety awareness and avoid the recurrence of such accidents." ”
4. What should the government do?
And how should the local government respond to this accident?
First of all, as a local government, it should strengthen the construction of infrastructure, especially such key transportation facilities, and strengthen its monitoring to avoid similar accidents from happening again.
Secondly, for the local government, we should strengthen the publicity of public education, educate the people to strengthen their own safety awareness, and also educate the people to deal with emergencies, only in this way can the safety of people's lives and property be guaranteed.
Similarly, after a similar accident, the media should also report on it, but it should be reported objectively and fairly, without exaggerating the facts, let alone creating panic.
For government departments, they should establish a sound disaster early warning mechanism and emergency response procedures to improve their ability to respond to emergencies.
At the same time, it is also hoped that all sectors of society can strengthen cooperation and work together to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, and also hope that the families of the victims will mourn.