Graham
Well-Known Member
Soon after the callapse, they had weighed one of the trucks with it's load very soon after the road came down.
I think it was reported it weighed 65 tones if I remember right.
They have finished weighing the remaining trucks and load, and were also overloaded.
Overloaded trucks
They confirm the 4 trucks weighed 480 metric tones.
As all the trucks were in the right (slow) lane of the overhead bridge, then this caused the tipping over of the road section.
<sniped>Four overloaded trucks, weighing more than 480 metric tons altogether, were on the right side of a 122-meter ramp of the Qunli viaduct project, said Liu Xingming, deputy head of a team investigating the accident.<sniped>
<sniped> Liu noted that when construction of the ramp finished in November, the designer, contractor, supervisor and some experts conducted a trial using seven vehicles, 30 tons each, to test the quality of the ramp.<sniped>
It's not over yet.
Gra
I think it was reported it weighed 65 tones if I remember right.
They have finished weighing the remaining trucks and load, and were also overloaded.
Overloaded trucks
They confirm the 4 trucks weighed 480 metric tones.
As all the trucks were in the right (slow) lane of the overhead bridge, then this caused the tipping over of the road section.
<sniped>Four overloaded trucks, weighing more than 480 metric tons altogether, were on the right side of a 122-meter ramp of the Qunli viaduct project, said Liu Xingming, deputy head of a team investigating the accident.<sniped>
<sniped> Liu noted that when construction of the ramp finished in November, the designer, contractor, supervisor and some experts conducted a trial using seven vehicles, 30 tons each, to test the quality of the ramp.<sniped>
It's not over yet.
Gra
