Road collapse causes major jams en route to Bangkok after a pick-up falls into sinkhole

A pick-up truck plunged into a sinkhole created by a sudden road collapse on the parallel lane of Rama II Road on Jan 17. -- PHOTO: THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): An urgent incident caused alarm among motorists in Samut Sakhon early on Saturday (Jan 17) when a section of Rama II Road on the inbound carriageway to Bangkok collapsed.

At around 6.30am local time, the Facebook page Samut Sakhon Press reported a sudden road collapse on the parallel lane of Rama II Road, near the Big Song shopping centre, creating a large and deep sinkhole roughly the width of a vehicle.