Seongnam City, Jeongja Bridge Collapse Emergency Briefing: "Safety Inspections for All Bridges"
Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province held an emergency briefing regarding the collapse accident of the Bundang Jeongja Bridge sidewalk and announced that it will conduct safety inspections on all bridges within the jurisdiction while investigating the cause of the accident.
In the briefing materials, Seongnam City stated, "At around 9:45 a.m. today, approximately 50 meters of the sidewalk section of Jeongja Bridge located in Jeongja-dong, Bundang-gu, collapsed, resulting in the death of one pedestrian and serious injury to another. Jeongja Bridge, completed on June 20, 1993, received a C grade in the detailed inspection conducted in May 2021, indicating that some components such as the bridge deck required repairs. Accordingly, from August to December 2022, surface repairs of the floor slab and cross-sectional repairs were carried out based on the detailed inspection results."
They added, "In line with the scheduled detailed inspection, a safety inspection company was contracted from February this year to carry out the detailed inspection. The exact cause of the accident will be determined after the Korea Infrastructure Safety Corporation conducts a detailed safety diagnosis of the bridge, and based on the results, repair and reinforcement of the bridge will be pursued," promising.
Furthermore, they emphasized, "We will thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident and, above all, alleviate citizens' concerns by conducting a comprehensive emergency safety inspection of all 211 bridges in Seongnam City to ensure that such incidents never happen again."
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They also stated, "We will do everything possible to honor the deceased and support the treatment of the seriously injured," and extended "deep condolences to the bereaved families of the deceased and the families of the seriously injured."
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