A “black spot” refers to a notoriously harmful part of highway.
The next day, one other Fb put up repeated the declare however was deleted after being shared greater than 100 instances.
Nonetheless, the identical declare and picture appeared once more in a Fb put up in addition to on X (see right here and right here).
Horrific crash
Twelve folks had been killed on August 31, 2024, when a 10-seater van collided with a pickup truck on the Nithi Bridge on the Embu-Meru freeway within the jap area of Kenya (archived right here).
In response to native experiences, the victims had been a part of a gaggle that had simply attended a parental blessing ceremony and shared a video of their celebrations on social media shortly earlier than the tragedy.
Nithi Bridge is considered one in all Kenya’s most harmful roads (archived right here).
However the picture circulating on-line doesn’t present Nithi Bridge.
Chinese language freeway
A reverse picture search led to civil engineering accounts on Fb and X that revealed the picture on April 8, 2024 (archived right here and right here). They recognized the bridge because the “Xuguang Expressway” in China.
AFP Reality Examine in Hong Kong discovered a clip of the bridge on the Asian video-sharing platform Bilibili (archived right here).
The video’s caption describes the construction because the Dubu Elevated Bridge, the “highest viaduct in Asia”, and part of the Xuguang Expressway in Qingyuan, Guangdong.
A comparability of the photographs within the false posts and the video on Bilibili exhibits the bridge’s supporting pillars and the yellow guard railings subsequent to the highway are the identical.
The identical part of the expressway can also be seen on Baidu Maps and Google Maps.
As Google Maps exhibits, Kenya’s Nithi Bridge has a very completely different construction.
Nithi is much less elevated than the bridge in China, with silver-coloured barricades in place, not yellow.
