Car falls into sinkhole at Tanjong Katong Road South; one person taken to hospital

[Bui Kia]

Wah if EDMW confirmed will run far2 away.

The Indian workers can still help to rescue.

If edmw bbfa near that area ....i think the hole might extend further and bigger
want to save ...maybe the victim choose to get drown

 

[buffybuffy]

road marshaller had spider sense? he wanted to stop the car driver leh~

But female driver didn’t follow his instruction

 

[yperic]

In a doorstop interview, MP Goh Pei Ming explained that soil stabilisers are being injected to fill every cavity around the sinkhole, after which the road can be repaved.

A definite timeline will be set following the scans.

He also thanked personnel from multiple agencies working hard to carry out the repairs safely and expediently.

 

[yperic]

 

[parchiao]

I will skip using that road until the sewage works are completed And everything is covered up.

 

[XiaoJinLing]

In a doorstop interview, MP Goh Pei Ming explained that soil stabilisers are being injected to fill every cavity around the sinkhole, after which the road can be repaved.

A definite timeline will be set following the scans.

He also thanked personnel from multiple agencies working hard to carry out the repairs safely and expediently.

Goh Pei Ming? Goh Mei Ping????
Waliew

 

[asymmetric]

road marshaller had spider sense? he wanted to stop the car driver leh~

He can see 1ms in the future. Could be an Xmen

 

[gaul_ads]

Seriously, why is the MP fronting this ?
Whilst he is the MP for the vicinity, such a disruptive sinkhole impacts more than just residents in the vicinity.

It's part of our road infrastructure.
Shouldn't a more appropriate person be fronting this ?

Busying Acting la... No time to come

 

[CanIsayNo]

Wah if EDMW confirmed will run far2 away.

The Indian workers can still help to rescue.

singaporeans are good at creating powerpoints and doing up reports, knowing where to get good bubble tea etc.

these sort of real life situations? forget it

 

[yperic]

Timeline on road reopening will only be provided after sinkhole is filled & scans are completed: MP Goh Pei Ming​

Repair works are progressing safely and expediently.

Work is still ongoing on the sinkhole that opened along Tanjong Katong Road South, and a definitive timeline for reopening the road will only be provided after the scans are completed.

This comes after the car that fell into the sinkhole was removed on the afternoon of Jul. 27, about 20 hours after the sinkhole appeared at 5pm on. Jul. 26.

According to Member of Parliament Goh Pei Ming, the workers are currently backfilling all the cavities with a kind of soil stabiliser.

This is to ensure that any small cavities within the walls of the sinkhole are filled with the stabiliser before they add graded stones, a material typically used to build underneath roads to fill the cavity.

From there, they will repave the roads and conduct additional checks on both sides of the road to ensure that all material underneath has been compacted and that there are no other cavities.

"So at this juncture, the timeline-wise, they will be able to give a definite timeline for the road reopening after the scans have been completed," said Goh.

"I think the engineers are working very hard to ensure this is safe for the road reopening again."

In terms of when the scans would be done, Goh said they are readying the equipment tonight, and once proceedings are "developing well" and ready, they will proceed with the backfilling and scans.

"So in terms of all the necessary steps, various agencies are making sure the steps are all prepared, the equipment, the personnel are all prepared, so that they're able to move in an expedient way."

Goh also expressed his appreciation for all the personnel across the agencies who have been working very hard from the night before to safely and expediently repair the road.

Top photos via Aiman Nadzri/Mothership

 

[twinkle07]

 

[Nuclear Boy]

A hole that can swallow an entire car lengthwise is not a hole anyone should be jumping into. Otherwise, rescuers would then have TWO people to rescue in this case.

Use brain and tools available, just like the foreman (above) did.

 

[Courage]

I will skip using that road until the sewage works are completed And everything is covered up.

There is no such thing as "completed" for this road. It will be dug 2 weeks later on a neverending cycle. Construction is 100% guaranteed on this road every few weeks

 

[PAPHuatAh]

We are interested in the NSF that drive the tank hit the lamp pole need to to DB ?

is the nsf pure sinkie or pr. if sinkie cfm db.. if white horse pr..... 60% voted for this

 

[jonesftw]

 

[InitialD.D]

how the worker actually can tell that the road's about to sink?

he felt the vibrations?

Watch the video slowly, can see the previous car (before the lady Mazda) one wheel kenna caught onto the road (just as it started sinking). The previous car (volks?) quite heng. If slow by 2 second he also kenna swallow

 

[3G SAINT]

PAP government agencies are known to bo hew opposition MPs. Ask Low Thia Khiang.

The accident already big impact cannot dnt bother

 

[pwongkk]

Should be any land beyond marine parade is reclaimed. Chapel road has always been there.

dont believe check out sea breeze lodge choa family bungalow and the mansion off still road

Use Marine Parade Road as reference. The original shoreline is around there.

Opposite parkway has a very retro house, which was those seaside house before reclamation.

 

[3G SAINT]

PAP government agencies are known to bo hew opposition MPs. Ask Low Thia Khiang.

Actually opposition are very lucky did not win there if not will not easily handle and get lot of criticise by PAP MP

 

[Philipkee]

The probability of falling into sinkhole while driving is extremely remote . I don’t know if it has ever happened in sinkieland. She happened to be the unlucky one but lucky in the sense she survived without any injury as she was rescued in the nick of time .

Happened before in Keppel and a few other times