Impact instant exposure! The cause of the Lixin Sha Bridge accident was made public! The companies involved responded

The press conference on the emergency of the Lixinsha Bridge was held in Guangzhou on the afternoon of the same day, and the relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Maritime Safety Administration and other departments briefed the relevant situation. The relevant person in charge said that at about 5:31 on the 22nd, when the Foshan container ship Lianghui 688 was sailing through the Nansha Hongqi drain Road, due to improper operation of the crew, the port side of the Lianghui 688 wheel touched the 18# pier of the downstream navigation hole of the Lixinsha Bridge, and then the bow touched the 19# pier of the downstream navigation hole again, resulting in the bridge deck breaking on the navigation hole.

After verification, a total of 4 vehicles and 1 electric motorcycle fell from the fracture, of which 1 empty minibus, 1 truck and 1 electric motorcycle fell into the cabin of "Lianghui 688", and 2 small trucks fell into the water. The accident killed 5 people (1 driver of an empty minibus, 1 driver of an electric motorcycle, 3 people in a small truck into the water), 2 people are in hospital, and their vital signs are stable. One crew member of the ship was slightly injured.

In terms of accident investigation, the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration has set up an accident investigation team to investigate and collect evidence, and the maritime department has also worked with the public security department to control the person responsible for the accident.

The ship company involved is a Foshan shipping service Co., LTD., and the person in charge of the company responded to the crash of the Lixinsha Bridge: It is fully cooperating with the investigation and actively compensating the personnel and the bridge damage. The person in charge said: "We are now dealing with, the captain has been detained, can not afford to pay, no matter how to assume responsibility, we are not escaping, we just actively respond, actively cooperate, actively to compensate, actively to deal with." We need to compensate the workers first, and we need to wait for the government to confirm our responsibility.

Regarding the follow-up treatment of the Lixinsha Bridge, Zou Xiaojiang, chief engineer of the Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, said that after receiving the report of the collapse of the partial span main beam of the Nansha Lixinsha Bridge, the bureau will work with relevant units to carry out emergency rescue at the scene for the first time, after preliminary testing and organizing the design, construction and other industry experts' consultation and judgment, in addition to the collapse of the 19# pier side hanging beam of the main bridge, Pier 19#, which was damaged by the collision, is severely inclined and at risk of further instability.

Zou Xiaojiang said that in order to avoid secondary disasters, it is necessary to further dismantle the 19#-20# pier span beams and eliminate safety hazards. At the same time, the transportation department is organizing the mobilization of the construction team and the required large machinery and equipment to carry out on-site evacuation. After the on-site danger is completely eliminated, the bridge damage will be further tested and assessed, and the bridge reinforcement and repair plan will be formulated according to the test results, and the traffic will be resumed as soon as possible.