Two people were killed while wading under the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge in Haidian, and a reporter from Beiqing Daily visited the site-
no warning sign for wading was seen on the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge
News from our newspaper (reporter Wang Bin) On the evening of August 16, local heavy rainfall occurred in Haidian District.
Located in the north of Tiancun Road Station of Metro Line 6, under the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge, there was severe water accumulation for a short time. A car was trapped when passing through the section of the road. Two people who were trapped while driving through the water were unfortunately killed by the hospital.
Yesterday morning, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily found that the site of the incident was a recessed bridge with the deepest part of the standing water nearly 2 meters.
On the railings of the bridge body, you can see the 3.5-meter height limit sign, but there is no obvious wading warning sign.
At about 21 o'clock on August 16, severe water accumulated for a short time under the railway bridge of Hanhe Road in Haidian District.
From an online video, we can see that many cars were trapped at the scene of the incident. One of the white cars was trapped under the bridge. The standing water had already covered the roof of the car. Many people stood on the roof to rescue people and be trapped. The person performed artificial respiration, and there were warning lights flashing in the distance, and the staff was on guard at the periphery of the scene.
According to the Beijing Haidian WeChat public account, the two people in the car were rescued by rescuers and the masses, and they were promptly sent to the hospital from 120 for treatment.
On the morning of August 17, two people who were trapped in a car wading through the water died unfortunately after being rescued by the hospital.
Yesterday morning, a reporter from the Beiqing Daily came to the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge. This recessed bridge is located north of the Tiancun Road Station of Metro Line 6 and on the northwest side of Jingliang Square.
There are four bridge holes in the bridge area, and the main road for motor vehicles is two-way six-lane, separated by green belts in the middle.
The railway bridge has a very low terrain and a relatively steep slope. It is basically the lowest point in the surrounding area. On the railings of the bridge body, you can see a 3.5-meter height limit sign, but no obvious wading warning signs are seen.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the accumulated water in the bridge area had been drained, and the road was full of silt.
The Haidian Environmental Sanitation Department has sent 6 sanitation workers to shovel mud with shovels, and 2 sprinklers drove across the main road, repeatedly washing the ground.
The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that there is a water level line drawn in the depression of the main road of the bridge area. From the residual water mark and mud mark on the bridge pillar, it can be seen that the deepest part of the stagnant water is nearly 2 meters.
"The rain was too heavy last night, I have never seen such a heavy rain! It was about 21 o'clock, and suddenly there was a pouring rain, like pouring water from the sky, the air was white." I live near Hanhe Road. A citizen in, told a reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily that he was watching TV at home when he heard the sound of rain and quickly closed the window, but the rain could still be poured into the house through the cracks.
At the same time, Mr. Yang, the driver who drove to the railway bridge near Hanhe Road, also found that something was wrong, “I turned the wiper to the maximum, but still couldn’t see the road. With years of driving experience, I think there will be something under the bridge. With stagnant water, I hurried to park the car on the side of the road. The heavy rain lasted for nearly half an hour."
At the time of the incident, not only was it raining heavily, but there was also a strong wind.
"At the time I was in the communication room of the community, which was more than 20 meters away from the entrance of the unit building, but the strong wind and heavy rain made me unstable and couldn't rush back." Mr. Sun, a resident near the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge, said, "Later In the communication room, there was a person who had come back from the outside, soaked all over, and the umbrella was broken."
According to the news released by the Beijing Meteorological Observatory, at 20:30 on August 16, heavy rainfall has occurred from north to south in Haidian District, with an average rainfall of 41.1 mm in the entire district.
At 21:15, 21:25 that night, three warnings were issued in less than half an hour. The rainstorm warning level in Haidian District was upgraded from blue to yellow, and from yellow to orange.
Photographer/Reporter Yuan Yi
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Why did the incident bridge area rise by nearly 2 meters in a short time?
A reporter from the Beiqing Daily learned from relevant departments that the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge in Haidian District, where two people were killed by wading due to stagnant water, suffered heavy rainfall on the evening of August 16.
According to China's meteorological regulations, heavy rainfall with a rainfall of more than 50 mm in 24 hours is called "heavy rain." "The Hanhe Road Railway Bridge dropped 46.2 mm in 15 minutes, which is like pouring water from the sky. Relevant personnel said that the rain on the evening of August 16 came suddenly and violently, which caused the water level of the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge to rise rapidly, and even the water rose by nearly 2 meters in a short time.
As for why the water rose so quickly in a short period of time, the officer said that it is currently undergoing a resumption.
The person also said that in the past, the Hanhe Road Railway Bridge had rarely seen stagnant water, and even the stagnant water on the evening of August 16 was quickly drained.
A reporter from the Beiqing Daily saw at the scene that there were not many drainage outlets in the recesses of the bridge area. After the rain subsided, there were still many silt and dead branches and leaves on the roadside.
In this regard, people related to flood control said that the insufficient number of drainage outlets, coupled with the blockage of the drainage outlets by dead branches and rotten leaves under strong winds and heavy rainfall, may also be a reason for the rapid rise of stagnant water.
A reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily learned that after the city entered the flood season, Beijing Drainage Group stated that many of the water accumulations are now caused by the heavy wind that blocked the rainwater outlets with garbage leaves. "Therefore, in the next three years, we will change the 234,000 rainwater grates in the central city in batches from the original flat grates to the horizontal and vertical combined type. When the grates are blocked by leaves, the rainwater can also be discharged through the vertical grates. "The relevant person in charge of Beijing Drainage Group said. Text/Reporter Xie Li Wang Bin