Highway Collapses on Sukhumvit Soi 64/1 in Bangkok [video]

[KhunBENQ]

29 minutes ago, digbeth said:

there are legal maximum weight for all roads 

Do you know what the word "special" could mean?

[digbeth]

7 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Do you know what the word "special" could mean?

there are  no need for special sign if the maximum legal weight for all trucks are like 50 tonne, and this project's temporary road surface was designed for that, is it unforeseeable that there would be trucks running around over the weight limit regularly? ideally it should have been designed with tolerance in mind 

[khunjeff]

16 hours ago, digbeth said:

That is not in Sukhumvit 64 whatever but on Sukhumvit itself near 64/1

 

The "journalists" seem to have missed the fairly obvious clue of the BTS structure running alongside the road.

[PETERTHEEATER]

18 hours ago, freeworld said:

Where is the part submerged?

Attatched to the undelivered submarine?

Fear not. A hole has appeared in a road. The Bangkok Governor is looking in to it.

[1happykamper]

16 hours ago, bdenner said:

Strange there is no mention of the "bar bar bor bor" (idocy) of the owner/drivers of these trucks!!!!!

20 + mirrors pointing at the driver - 12 driving lights across the roof (Bling) - and effin mud flaps protruding 30 cm outside the width of the vehicle. Goes back to the days where bus drivers had to open the screen over their engine to show that "my engine is bigger than yours" = Stuff the fact that someone could get caught up in the rotating belts === IDIOTS

Som Non Nah - there is a Budda!

What? It's not the drivers fault. The metal cover wasn't strong enough.. Or was positioned poorly. 

[charleskerins]

15 hours ago, aseanfan said:

Correct - that is on Sukhumivit Road by True Digital Park - I was there and saw it all...very impressed at how they managed to get two huge cranes in place so quickly to rescue the truck that was about to descend into the depths of the man made concrete ringed tube descending to who knows where.

So it wasn't backfilled properly  or not backfilled at all?

[charleskerins]

1 minute ago, charleskerins said:

So it wasn't backfilled properly  or not backfilled at all?

temporary road cover -understand now.

[soalbundy]

10 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

 

It also makes me wonder how they are usually supported. Four squares covering a giant hole with no support in the middle. If we had rectangular pieces covering the hole that makes sense, but squares that meet in the middle with no support underneath?. How does that work?

Paper clips but one of them broke

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, 1happykamper said:

What? It's not the drivers fault. The metal cover wasn't strong enough.. Or was positioned poorly. 

Possibly bribe to allow truck to be heavier than legally allowed could be considered driver's fault. Below is screenshot of Thai discussion on it...

 

This is Thai discussion over it...

 

[digbeth]

1 hour ago, charleskerins said:

temporary road cover -understand now.

temporary for these tunnels seems quite a long time, most of the roads that have big underground tunnel for electrics like these seem to have these slabs in place for 2-3 years now and opened up for works during the night 

[JohnAllan]

21 hours ago, Crossy said:

Seems to be a bit of an epidemic.

 

 

 

 

[JohnAllan]

20 hours ago, Celsius said:

Has anyone watched the video? They are literally blaming the driver for truck being too heavy for this road.

 

20 hours ago, Celsius said:

Has anyone watched the video? They are literally blaming the driver for truck being too heavy for this road.

This IS Thailand!

 

Where WOULD we be, without TiT!?

[josephbloggs]

14 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

 

It also makes me wonder how they are usually supported. Four squares covering a giant hole with no support in the middle. If we had rectangular pieces covering the hole that makes sense, but squares that meet in the middle with no support underneath?. How does that work?

They are all back in place again today so it works somehow (except when it didn't).

[DJ54]

and my guess is the truck was over the weight limit… 

[RobU]

Second incident of this type this week. Overloaded truck or not the concrete slab should not have collapsed. Very poor roadbuilding again. Fortunately no one has been killed in either incident. It seems like the higways authority has a lot to answer for what with electrocuting and killing citizens on a regular basis and badly made collapsing concrete covers

[KhunBENQ]

On 11/9/2023 at 9:42 PM, RobU said:

Overloaded truck

Just seen a report that the driver will be prosecuted for driving an overloaded vehicle (among other).

[RobU]

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Just seen a report that the driver will be prosecuted for driving an overloaded vehicle (among other).

Passing the buck that concrete should not have collapsed like that.

[josephbloggs]

1 hour ago, RobU said:

Passing the buck that concrete should not have collapsed like that.

If you look at the pictures, the concrete did not in any way collapse. After they pulled the truck out they put the panels right back, intact.

 

They did dislodge yes, but the concrete held. It still shouldn't have happened, obviously.

[RobU]

48 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

If you look at the pictures, the concrete did not in any way collapse. After they pulled the truck out they put the panels right back, intact.

 

They did dislodge yes, but the concrete held. It still shouldn't have happened, obviously.

Agreed the concrete panels were easily dislodged i.e. they collapsed they did not break. Thus the weight of the vehicle is irrelevant. No central support to prevent slippage.

[bristolgeoff]

The truck was to heavy should have known that but he thought he is ok going over it.End result is they for all to see,in a uk city or many small roads or streets. How big trucks try they luck to deliver and get struck,they should have known better