A CONCRETE beam fell down from the fifth floor of a building on Rama 4 road, Bang Rak district, crushing a parked pickup truck below just as another vehicle and a motorcycle were passing in the adjacent lane this afternoon (Dec. 14) but fortunately no one got injured, Amarin TV said.
The beam fell down from this floor of a 10-storey building at almost 3.43 p.m. while workers were busy demolishing parts of it. Firefighters, electricity officials and Bang Rak rescue workers soon came and cleared the road returning traffic flow back to normal.
A maid said she clearly saw some metal sheets flying down the building before the heavy beam too plunged down.
A dashcam of a passing vehicle filmed the beam falling onto the rear cab of the pickup truck soon after some metal sheets slowly dropped down one by one.
Fortunately this vehicle was going down the right lane or else it too might have been hit. A motorcyclist who was in front of this vehicle narrowly escaped injury with only small pieces of debris hitting the bike but no one was seriously injured.
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The video screenshot above shows the concrete beam plunging down a building on Rama 4 road, Bang Rak district, today, Dec. 14, 2024, while the inserted image shows the scene a few seconds before it did so. Photo: Naewna
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