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Ratchaprarop intersection in Bangkok closed due to subsidence

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A pickup truck sustained damage when its two front wheels fell into a huge hole in the road at a junction on Ratchaprarop Road, after a section of the road subsided at about 6pm on Monday, forcing traffic police and city officials to close the road so workers with heavy machinery could repair it.

 

Witnesses claim that they saw a ten-wheel truck, laden with soil, pass through the intersection, heading towards Chaturathit Road, before the road subsided and trapped the pickup truck.

 

Suphamit Laithong, head of the drainage and sewerage office of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, told the media that workers used concrete slabs and two rubber sheets to cover the gap in the road, before pouring mixed concrete to seal the gap. He said the concrete has to harden before the road can be reopened.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-11-07

 

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I hope there was some steel in there too.

 

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

Same hole??

 

 

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

Same hole and TV is showing video of the very heavy looking truck going through just before it opened up (immediately after dump truck passed over) and then the pickup going into hole.

Edited by lopburi3

It wasn't subsidence it was incompetence of the city engineers that caused it . There was no subsidence

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