Hit by trailer truck, Nonthaburi pedestrian overpass collapses

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Pedestrian overpass collapses

NONTHABURI: -- A pedestrian overpass on a bypass road in Nonthaburi collapsed and fell on two passing vehicles after it was hit by a trailer truck Thursday night.

No one was injured when the pedestrian overpass near the Pracharat-Pibulsongkram junction was brought to the ground after the trailer truck with a huge steel frame for the electric train project on board hit the overpass structure.

A Nissan Cefiro sedan was entirely damaged when the bridge structure fell right in the middle if the car while the Mitsubishi car was crashed at the rest.

The incident caused traffic jams for several hours as the traffic police have to close the bypass to facilitate the crane truck to lift the broken bridge to the sidewalk.

The Volvo trailer truck belongs Ch Karnchang, contractor of the electric train project.

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause while the company also was negotiating with the car owners for compensation.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pedestrian-overpass-collapses/


-- Thai PBS 2014-04-25

[PatOngo]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

[NongKhaiKid]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

[NamKAheng]

Nothing to investigate here, the load was to high and a moron did not mesure height of the load.

[Patje]

He did put on the wrong glasses that day....

[CelticBhoy]

". . while the Mitsubishi car was crashed at the rest."

That gem will go down as my favourite piece of the week.

[NeverSure]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

If that had happened in a first world country where engineers actually test welds and steel and concrete if used, the overpass most likely would have won.

Some examples

[NongKhaiKid]

". . while the Mitsubishi car was crashed at the rest."

That gem will go down as my favourite piece of the week.

Look out AEC as ' Thailish ' is coming.

[Somtamnication]

The disaster here is the Thaiglish article.

[trainman34014]

Not the first...and won't be the last... TIT

[oldsailor35]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

Rubbish! The driver definately stated that the bridge was to blame as it was too low !

[Local Drunk]

I think about this ever time I use a crossover...

[jeanpierre]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

no no no the overpass was to low!!

[NongKhaiKid]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

Rubbish! The driver definately stated that the bridge was to blame as it was too low !

I'll accept that and at least the overpass didn't try to flee the scene.

[NeverSure]

It was the overpass's fault. If it hadn't been there, it wouldn't have happened.

[Local Drunk]

"negotiating with the car owners for compensation"

I'd be suing the driver, the company that owned the truck, the construction company that built the crossover and the government that certified the construction of the crossover.

Hey I'm from California...

[wprime]

That ought to teach him a valuable lesson about driving a truck without his Buddhist amulet.

[lee b]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

Rubbish! The driver definately stated that the bridge was to blame as it was too low !

I'll accept that and at least the overpass didn't try to flee the scene.

haha, now that would have been a story. Overpass seen running accross highway !

[55Jay]

If he hadn't of been driving his truck there, or if someone hadn't put that bridge there.... this would of never happened.

[andygunther]

Nothing to investigate here, the load was to high and a moron did not mesure height of the load.

But it went well when he drove under the overpass to pick up the load,

I am sure he is confused .....

[NongKhaiKid]

It was the overpass's fault. If it hadn't been there, it wouldn't have happened.

Yes and if it had been built by a joint venture company it would have been at least part foreign and therefore a guest in this country so ... !

[roguewo]

Police said investigation was underway to find out the cause.

Here's a tip..........the load was too high.

Rubbish! The driver definately stated that the bridge was to blame as it was too low !

So true! If the bridge hadn't of been there, it wouldn't have happened...

[Thaiisnotrequired]

No wonder there is no name attached to the article. My P4 class can write better English!

[ChrisY1]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

If that had happened in a first world country where engineers actually test welds and steel and concrete if used, the overpass most likely would have won.

Yes...some crackers in the pics ....and none of them in Thailand probably....but most of the bridges stayed up.

[Som wat]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

If that had happened in a first world country where engineers actually test welds and steel and concrete if used, the overpass most likely would have won.

Some examples

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It wasn't an overpass, it was a small pedestrian walkway.

[NongKhaiKid]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

If that had happened in a first world country where engineers actually test welds and steel and concrete if used, the overpass most likely would have won.

Some examples

302383.jpg

It wasn't an overpass, it was a small pedestrian walkway.

Tell the sub-editor who set the headline.

[winstonc]

Was the overpass built to the usual exacting standards in Thailand using quality materials and having passed rigorous checks before being put into public use?

If that had happened in a first world country where engineers actually test welds and steel and concrete if used, the overpass most likely would have won.

Some examples

302383.jpg

It wasn't an overpass, it was a small pedestrian walkway.

Tell the sub-editor who set the headline.

then its an overpass surely passing over the road...help me out im confused here..

[Som wat]

Pedestrian bridge/walkway/overpass in the OP, Neversure's examples are large vehical overpasses designed for two large trucks to drive over at the same time.

The sad logic of the Thai hater. Thai stoopid, Westerner inteligent. Look, let's take examples of two completely different things to prove it.

[thesetat2013]

Come on everyone! We all know it was not the truck drivera fault. They made the steel too high or the bridge ws built too low or maybe the truck manufacturer made the truck too high. At least we know for sure the driver will not be held to blame.

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[ozziepete]

Nothing to investigate here, the load was to high and a moron did not mesure height of the load.

Have you thought that he may have been under other bridges and this one was not at the height that it was meant to be? So many jump to the conclusion that the driver is always at fault.