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Home » News from Thailand » Short news » Truck knocks down 47 power poles, causing massive havoc
Truck knocks down 47 power poles, causing massive havoc
In the Bangkok Post today a photo of a huge devastation on the Theparak Road in Bang Phli (Samut Prakan) where a truck with a trailer toppled no less than 46 electricity pylons over a distance of two kilometers on Saturday afternoon.
The driver was turning his car around when he hit one mast, causing the others to topple over like dominoes. At least 37 vehicles were damaged and one motorcyclist was slightly injured.
Some poles ended up on a pedestrian bridge, which was damaged as a result. The destruction caused traffic jams, resulting in dozens of kilometers of traffic jams.
Authorities have cut off electricity in the area for safety. The driver will be prosecuted for reckless driving and causing damage and injury to other road users.
Source: Bangkok Post – http://goo.gl/Wcdwil
This has to be a record, there's no other way.
46 posts in a simple accident. who is going to improve this.
Now serious. Fortunately, no fatalities or injuries occurred.
The driver was only responsible for 1 pole.
The poor construction of the piles for the rest of the piles.
If you see how long those posts are, you can expect them to break if those cables at the top of that post start pulling on the next post when you knock over one.
The driver is responsible for all poles.
if you drive your car full into a parked car and it hits the car in front and beyond.
then you don't say I'm responsible for the first car.
If you hit the back of another car at a red light, and that car then hits the car before you, you are only liable for the damage to the car you hit and the car you hit is liable for the damage to the car before that. (in the Netherlands at least)
But it seems to me that more thought should be given to those poles.
It happened once around here too.
But that was only 5 poles that went down.
All day without electricity.
This will probably also occur regularly elsewhere.
Three months ago, the same thing happened on Mae Sai's way back. Between Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, also a mass to the ground. The first pole hit drags the next along with it and this in two directions.
How dangerous is this, 1 pole falls and the rest goes with it.
That will happen everywhere, I also agree with Koos.
The driver really can't help this and is not guilty of the whole mess.
I agree with Ruud, the driver really can't help this and is not guilty of the whole mess. TIT (Construction)
How can 47 poles fall over so easily? Perhaps this question can be answered simply. Just corruption, deeply rooted in Thai society and visible everywhere for those who will look.
Houses that crash, walls where the holes fall, roads where the holes become visible after only a few weeks. Or a necessary operation with a waiting period of 1 year, but with some money shifting next week can be realized. Prisoners who get extra points for good behaviour, but only if the family shuffles a lot etc. With extra points you qualify for ammest, otherwise you can shake it.
And there are still people, also on this blog, who say that corruption is not too bad.
I wonder seeing this picture and in the news today on Thai TV.
Whether the posts are deep enough in the ground due to the length of the post and the top load.
Partly because the soil type in Bangkok is not that strong, you have to drill deeper anyway.
In addition , the rain has soaked the ground , making it even weaker .
I therefore think that they are not broken off at the foot.
Jan Beute
I warned some authorities with us that at our corner 1 pole was becoming more and more slanted.
One night it was hit, there were only 4 cables hanging on it so it couldn't be it but they were now hanging in my fence.
No one could pass through so it was quickly made.
Then the thunder started after studying the cause which I still had to tell them the authorities blamed each other.
Too little cover around the reinforcement of the concrete caused the iron to corrode so it had expanded and the concrete had jumped off, blamed on the maker of the piles.
It was only half a meter deep, so the fault lies with the placer of the piles.
He's nice with that, I still see plenty that will also start soon.
All in all, my fence is not yet made.
I did learn not to park my car near a pole.
Morning editors,
It is therefore advisable never to walk along the posts on the side of the road, but on the house side.
That the falling over of 1 pole resulted in 45 others falling down, the biggest fool can conclude that those poles with putty are 2 cm deep. (so to speak huh)
“Go ahead, add another cable and we still have a whole bunch left, so we'll just hang that in as well”
It is life-threatening and there is no whistling about it.
No matter which body is responsible for this, one will never find out, because the finger is pointed at the other.
But… all these authorities have a boss, the MP, who is therefore ultimately responsible.
Here is a very big rush job for him, which has to be done yesterday.
LOUISE
Comparing electric poles with cars is a nice misconception of the situation. Walking on that side of the road where there are no posts is difficult, because they are on both sides. Things just fell over. Completely understandable, because the cables are attached to all posts. If you put one on, the others go with it. It's nice to have someone else to blame. This dear people is Thailand, not the Netherlands.
If you lay the electrical cables and related underground as they do with us, something like this can never happen. When you see how many cables hang between the posts and keep pulling, you really shouldn't be surprised that everything tumbles to the ground like a domino with all the consequences delusional.