In South Korea, a motorcyclist lost his life on March 25 when an impressive chasm suddenly formed in the road. The man’s body was found at a depth of 50 meters.
At around 6 p.m. on Tuesday March 25, an impressive accident occurred in Seoul, South Korea. A large number of vehicles were travelling along a busy thoroughfare in the city when the ground suddenly collapsed. The scene was filmed by the on-board camera of a car that happened to be there, and it’s surreal.
In the images, the road can be seen cracking before the hole suddenly forms. A white car almost fell into the hole before driving off in extremis. This isn’t the first time a sinkhole has suddenly formed on a road. Last February, a lorry driver fell into a 10-meter hole, which suddenly appeared on the carriageway while he was driving.
A motorcyclist falls into the hole
While the driver of the white car escaped unscathed, a motorcyclist unfortunately did not, falling into the abyss and suffering a vertiginous fall. According to the BBC, after the accident, a massive search party was deployed to find him. After locating his cell phone, the emergency services finally found his body at a depth of 50 meters, 17 hours after the accident. The man, aged in his thirties, died of cardiac arrest.
For the moment, the circumstances surrounding the accident and the formation of the hole remain unknown. In South Korea, sinkholes of this kind are commonplace, occurring on average 200 times a year. They are called “skinholes” and can have multiple causes, such as “poor infrastructure management, aging or damaged pipes, long-term subsidence and accidents caused by excavation work”, reports La Dépêche.
While these sinkholes are extremely dangerous, this accident is not the only recent tragedy to have occurred in the country. Last December, a man lost 12 members of his family in South Korea. In Seoul, the hole continues to grow, and the authorities are calling for the utmost caution.
