I’m guessing from the rain and the bare earth that this was a landslide?
Correct, there’s been massive flooding in the area.
Looks like it. One set of pillars seems to be gone (the bridge in the front) dropping two segments, and the foundation of the pillar on the rear bridge has seriously moved around - you can see that the pillar is anything but straight, causing one segment to fall.
So either the foundation was not set deep enough, or the pillars broke just above the foundation. And for some reason, the segments were just placed on top of the pillars and not connected to each other by steel cables running the full lenght of the bridge.
Steel wires in the same plane (ie horizontal anchoring) as the horizontal segments could hold up even a single segment?
I wasn’t aware they are there, how are they called so I can learn more?
I’ve had a quick look at some schematics & didn’t find anything.
Also afaik tensioned steel wires (prob not just on bridges) arent allowed to be hidden (at least in Europe) to allow for inspection.Well, they seem to exist. I recalling a news article where a pylon of a bridge broke, and the segments were held together by such a cable. It didn’t leave a usable bridge, but at least nothing big and more important nobody fell down.
And whether they were hidden or not, I cannot give you an answer, but I think they could be accessible in the innards of the segments corpus, which in turn must be accessible anyway for inspection.
Was it a proper viaduct like this one (tho this is a medium one, with roadways separated completely into two “bridges”) or a much smaller one?
I’ll look into it when I have more time.
(Tho the more I think about it the more I see a structurally unsound cable connecting the top pieces as a liability - it could be the cause for the collapse of the whole bridge instead of just the two sections in one & three on the order bridge … and if it could support the road then why not just beef up the cable & not use supports? … it might just not be possible)
Translation
Driver: Call the police, call the fire dept., call everybody!
Guy: You’re in Guangzhou Bay; here we call the Paw Patrol!
It’s pissing me off that this was my first thought too.
“We’re gonna call the who?”
Ghost-busters, just coz I like to watch them bustin’.
He also say no signal, mei sing ha
Bro don’t even fart
The bridge was closed (by a mere) 30 minutes before the partial collapse, that’s why there were no casualties. Not sure why was the red truck there.
chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/25/WS685b4ef3a310a04af22c84eb.html
A section of a bridge on the Xiamen-Chengdu Expressway in Guizhou province collapsed on Tuesday morning following a landslide brought on by prolonged heavy rainfall. No casualties have been reported.
The collapse occurred at about 7:40 am in Sandu county as a truck was crossing the bridge. The driver was rescued by emergency teams, according to local authorities.
Highway patrol officers first observed structural deformation on the bridge as early as 5:51 am and imposed one-way traffic control. A full closure in both directions was implemented by 7:11 am, less than 30 minutes before a portion of the bridge gave way.
An investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the collapse.
Drone footage:
youtube/qO4odVoxkM8That’s a heck of a lot of faith in the holding strength of the fifth wheel.
I mean, we drive on bridges with faith they won’t collapse
And in most parts of the world the faith is very warranted, China included.
Good & quality infrastructure is vital to a country that wants to grow.
I mean, what else can he do at this point? Try to climb out himself? That sounds way riskier than waiting for the rescue team.
There is not much else to have faith in here at that point. Luckily, the coupling was not as unmaintained or underspec as many other things in China are.
Was he rescued?
Yes.
Strange question. What are the other options?
another option: he was not rescued
The cab breaks off and he plummets to his death?
Don’t think I’d just be calmly sitting at the open door. I’d probably be curled up on the floor wishing I hadn’t shit my pants
when is this from?
2025/06/24
“This is fine.”
This was the beginning of the paw patrol movie
“Hang on a minute, lads. I’ve got a great idea”
Hold on lads, I’ve got an idea…
Thank goodness he put on the Amazon lights
This is AI. China builds the biggerest strongest bridges. Nobody builds bridges better than China. China has the biggest most beautiful bridges. The world is jealous of chinas beautiful bridges. Only amerikkkan bridges collapse.
/s
What… What was the point of your comment?
Get outta here, Chinese Trump!
You’re really fucking weird. Go away.
