"I still remember how sad the world is, and I go out early in the morning and never return"
On May 1, a road collapse accident occurred on the Meida Expressway in Guangdong, and as of 14:00 on May 2, 23 vehicles have been found to have fallen, 48 people have died, 30 people have been injured and there is no life-threatening situation.
Behind the cold numbers, there are vivid bodies and happy families.
This incident is too painful, and there is a moment of silence for the deceased.
During the May Day holiday, it was all a family visit and a passenger flow, and it was a joyful and enjoyable event, which turned into a human tragedy overnight.
The gap between the before and after is too big, and it shows that the world is impermanent, and if it really responds to that sentence, I really don't know which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident.
The reason for such a huge casualty also has a lot to do with the timing of the collapse accident.
At more than 2 o'clock in the morning, driving on the highway, you can see from the picture that there are no street lights on this section of the road, the vision is not good, and the reflection effect of the soil is poor, in the eyes of the driver, the collapsed road surface is a sudden black hole, it is difficult to distinguish.
In this case, normal people can't react at all, which is the direct cause of the continuous fall of 23 vehicles.
If the accident occurs during the day, it is believed that the damage can be reduced somewhat.
More than 30 deaths on the mainland are already considered a serious accident, and I hope that the relevant departments will investigate the results as soon as possible and comfort the innocent souls.
Of course, the occurrence of a vicious event, in addition to pity and sorrow, leaves us with too much scrutiny and speculation.
Seeing some pictures from the scene, I still have some questions.
1. Why did the highway suddenly collapse?
The cause of the accident is under investigation, and some analysts believe that it was caused by continuous heavy rain in the local area for a long time, but it cannot be ruled out that it was a man-made disaster washed away by natural disasters.
Because just a year ago, before the Qingming Festival on April 1, 2023, there was also a serious landslide problem on this highway, and it was not the rainy season at that time, and there was no heavy rain, so how to explain it?
The first phase of the expressway was opened to traffic in December 2013, and the second phase was completed and put into operation in December 2014.
It is really unreasonable to collapse like this in less than 10 years after it was built and used.
As you can see from the photo below, the section of the road is attached to the mountain on one side and has a huge slope on the other side, which is the landslide section. What is the structure of the roadbed, it is a large amount of soil and rock, which is called filling.
In the section of the road next to the collapsed gap, you can see that the slope protection has been protected, but this protection is very simple, and there is no gravity retaining wall and other structures.
In fact, this kind of mountain highway, the safer way is to adopt the viaduct in this road section, so as to avoid the problem of roadbed in the landslide section, that is to say, the stacked slope of high fill, under certain conditions, the safety will be reduced, and the more filled the higher, the more difficult it is to stabilize. However, the viaduct is expensive, and the filling of the roadbed is cheaper.
Therefore, for this incident, many people are scolding the tofu slag project, which should of course be questioned. But I think there's another issue that deserves to be explored.
2. Why do more than a dozen cars burn to the point that only skeletons remain?
As can be seen from the pictures at the scene, the height of the vehicle fall does not seem to be particularly high, about ten meters, and because of the landslide, the soil below is relatively soft.
Because looking at the 30 injured people, their injuries are not serious, and basically they are not life-threatening. Falling from such a high place, because there is a slope and something to slow down the impact, if it were not for the fire, it is estimated that the death would not be so serious.
I watched the live footage at night, and the fire was big and spreading very quickly. And last night, the rain here in Guangdong was also particularly fierce, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a downpour.
It's unbelievable that such a large fire can occur in such a heavy rainstorm. After all, everyone knows that fire and water are incompatible!
I just wanted to find out, which car started the fire?
I searched all the information about the accident, but I couldn't find the recent photos of the accident vehicles.
There are also many electric vehicles on the market now, and the proportion is quite high. It often happens that the so-called new energy vehicle chassis is bumped, and a fire breaks out.
Not long ago, a new energy vehicle pressed into the manhole cover, and the manhole cover bounced up and hit the chassis, and then it smoked instantly.
This shows that the chassis of the new energy vehicle is quite brittle, after all, it is where the battery is stored. Once the battery is shocked, it is particularly prone to short circuits and fires, which spread particularly quickly.
So this time the highway collapsed and the vehicle fell, and the first thing to suffer damage must have been the chassis. Even if it is pressed to a manhole cover, it may smoke, not to mention that the chassis is hit so badly this time, will it cause a fire?
Looking at the pictures of the scene, it can be seen that there are two piles of cars on fire, the two are quite far apart, there are more cars in one pile, about a dozen, and there are two cars in the other place, all of which have been burned to skeletons.
Looking at the dirt between the two piles of cars, there are no signs of burning, which makes it feel like they were burned separately.
I often see fuel vehicles in movies that have an accident and ignite, or even explode, but in a heavy rainstorm, if there are only fuel vehicles, I am afraid it is not easy to burn like this.
I'm afraid that the two are superimposed together, more than a dozen cars are together, and the new energy vehicle burns up and ignites the fuel vehicle, and the fire cannot be controlled, causing such serious casualties.
Based on these conjectures, I wonder what car burned first?
If it is an electric car, then the safety of new energy vehicles is very worthy of attention.
Because this is likely to be another "real culprit" hiding behind the high-speed collapse, which was ignored by people and made the death toll expand rapidly!
The latest development of the accident is that Guangdong Province has begun to investigate the hidden dangers of geological disasters on the roads and along the province.
At present, the pressure of public opinion on "cutting corners" on the Internet is very high, and I hope that the relevant departments can seriously verify and give an explanation to the people of the whole country, and cannot let every accident be paid for by innocent people!
Why does a happy holiday turn into a deadly poison?
The 48 lives lost need answers! The 48 families behind them need answers!
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