Stuck truck finally freed from Sukhumvit hole

After collapsing steel covering, a 10-wheeler heavily loaded with mud took six days to free.

On Wednesday, traffic on occupied Sukhumvit Road was even worse than usual because a large truck that was trying to remove the steel slab covering the hole near Soi Sukhovit 64/1 caused it to collapse. It took the truck six hours to get rid of the slab.

Under the skywalk of the Punnawithi BTS place, where the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is installing electric wiring and cabling beneath, the road surface collapsed as the 10-wheel vehicle drove over it around 11.45 a.m.

According to police, two people were hurt and taken to a local hospital.

Sukhumvit Road’s three northbound lanes came to a complete stop, resulting in traffic jams that went all the way up to the Bang Na intersection and above.

Many online sleuths noticed a suspicious sticker on the truck’s entrance windshield as they started to move it, which was loaded with dirt that had been dug up from the construction site. The same ones that were used in a long-running ,&nbsp, corruption racket that allowed overloaded trucks to avoid police checks were displayed earlier this year.

Two more trucks showed up to remove the soil after a shovel was brought to the picture to scoop it out of the vehicle. The truck was finally lifted out of the opening using two cranes, and the job was finished around 6.30 p.m.

When the page may be repaired to allow for a resumption of traffic was still unknown.

There are about 700 areas on Bangkok highways where metal plates cover the entrances to tunnels for electric cables, according to the Thai Rath paper.

Chadchart Sittipunt, the government of Bangkok, told investigators that no staff were in the hole when the accident happened when he went to the scene that evening. According to him, the wire work typically takes place from 10 p.m. to 5 a in the morning.

He claimed that it was still unknown if the vehicle weighed more than the allotted pounds or whether the covering’s construction was poor.

A titanium plate covering a hole where cabling was being moved under close to Sukhumvit 64/1 collapsed under the weight of the large truck. Nutthawat Wichieanbut is shown in the image.