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An under-construction bridge on the Cangyu Expressway in the Qingyuan district of Baoding, Hebei province collapsed during a push, injuring four people and affecting traffic at the site. The day before the accident, it was announced that the South Third Ring Road was nearing completion.
A major industrial safety accident occurred in Baoding, Hebei, China. According to extensive Chinese media reports, on the morning of November 7, at the site of “Cangyu Expressway”, a local expressway that is under construction and connects Cangzhou City, Hebei Province and Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, a steel truss bridge collapsed during pushing, injuring three construction workers and a truck driver. Two laborers engaged in construction work were seriously injured. The day before the accident, there were local reports stating that “the South Third Ring Road is about to be connected.”
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Chinese media Jimu News reported that on the morning of November 7, the People’s Government of Qingyuan District, Baoding City, Hebei Province issued a situation report. At 10:50 am on November 7, 2026, the Qingyuan District Fire Rescue Brigade received a report that at the construction site of the project under construction across the Cangyu Expressway (K105+550 in the direction of Cangzhou), the steel truss collapsed during the pushing operation.
Footage taken by witnesses at the scene showed that a portion of the bridge “crossed” the highway directly, and the front of a freight vehicle traveling at high speed was damaged. Some vehicles are stranded on the highway after the accident. A driver said he drove beneath the collapsed steel structure and said it happened “in an instant” and “there was no obvious sound or major vibration.”
According to the report, after the accident, the district committee and the district government attached great importance to it and immediately organized health, emergency, public security, fire fighting and other units to carry out personnel rescue, traffic guidance, hidden danger investigation and other tasks. After preliminary verification, 3 construction workers and 1 passing truck driver were injured in the accident, of which 2 construction workers were seriously injured. All the injured have been sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
The report mentioned that as recently as November 6, there were local reports saying that “the South Third Ring Road is about to be connected, and the Baoding Third Ring Road is about to be completed.” Wang Ming, deputy general manager of Baotong Highway Survey and Design Co., Ltd. of Baoting Communications Group, said: “At present, the last major node of the South Third Ring Road project is the construction of the steel truss bridge on the Cangyu Expressway. The longitudinal push construction of the steel truss bridge is about to be completed. Once the horizontal push is made, the entire South Third Ring Road will be connected in the near future.”
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The accident occurred at a project site under construction across the Cangyu Expressway in the Qingyuan district of Baoding, Hebei province. It was a major construction block of projects related to the South Third Ring Road. At that time, a steel truss push operation was being carried out, but the bridge structure collapsed during the process.
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According to official reports, a total of three construction workers and a passing truck driver were injured in the accident, two of them seriously. All the injured were sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
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Because the local media had reported a day before the incident that the South Third Ring Road was about to be connected, saying that the construction of the steel truss bridge was about to be completed. Unexpectedly, the next day it was reported that the bridge structure had collapsed, causing a strong controversy and attracting the attention of the outside world.
