SAMUT SAKHON: Two people were killed and a third injured when a light beam fell from a U-turn flyover onto the Rama II Highway in Muang district on Sunday night time.
It occurred near the 34 kilometre marker on Rama II Road, the Thon Buri-Pak Tho road, in front of Vibharam Samutsakhon Hospital about 8. 30pm.
An enormous concrete beam, about 10 metres lengthy and weighing regarding five tonnes, together with its concrete rail guard. fell on to three vehicles passing underneath the flyover, which had been closed intended for maintenance.
The beam arrived directly on top of the Chevrolet car plus partly on a pickup and an empty oil tanker on the Bangkok-bound side of the highway.
A lady in the car’s front side passenger seat had been crushed and murdered. Its driver was pulled out of the vehicle by eyewitnesses. 5 people travelling in the pickup truck narrowly escaped injury as the beam crunched the front from the vehicle
Two men working on the flyover were injured, and one afterwards succumbed to his accidental injuries.
The particular collapse caused a traffic jam. Drivers could use only the frontage lanes. Highways officials closed the expressway lanes for fear of the flyover structure was unsafe.
The Roads Department closed the U-turn flyover on June 23 designed for maintenance because of damage.
It was heavily used by huge trucks and the surface was badly eroded, in places right down to the steel reinforcing rods. The maintenance work was earlier set for finalization at the end of this month.