PUBLISHED: 21 May 2024 at 11: 12
SAMUT PRAKAN: On Monday evening, a motorcyclist was reported injured and 12 other vehicles were reported damaged while a motorist was also reported hurt when they crossed a collapse beside a temporary shelter on Srinakarin Road in Muang district.
Around 10pm, the incident was reported to the authorities. The hole opens up on a Bangkok-bound street that cars cross from a bridge above Theparak Road in tambon Samrong Nuea. It was about one inch wide, two feet longer and 15 centimetres full.
A bicyclist was hurt falling into the hole, and at least 10 cars reported wheel and tire injury.
A damaged concrete block on the road surface had subsided next to a hole, according to police, allowing access to a water major being installed along Srinakarin Road.
A 32-year-old man who identified himself as J claimed to have witnessed the accident and had only experienced a front tire tumble as he felt his vehicle wheel fall into it. He noticed that several other vehicles had also been damaged that after parking his car it.
Thanakrit Saengchompoo, 34, said his wheel wheel shook as his car immediately hit the bottom of the hole. He claimed that heavy customers prevented him from observing the damaged section of the road and made it impossible to prevent it.
An engineer named Praphon, a 50-year-old man, claimed the ruined road was in the vicinity of a water main installation and that he assumed the foundation had subsided beneath the practical road surface. Rainfall had gotten worse by leaking through the damaged area, adding to the damage.
