A ‘black spot’ refers to a notoriously dangerous stretch of road.
The next day, another Facebook post repeated the claim, but it was removed after it was shared more than 100 times.
However, the same claim and image appeared again in a Facebook post and also on X (see here And here).
Terrible crash
On August 31, 2024, twelve people were killed when a ten-seater van caught fire. collided with a pick-up truck on the Nithi Bridge on the Embu-Meru Highway in eastern Kenya (archived here).
According to local reports, the victims were part of a group that had just attended a blessing ceremony and had shared a video of their celebration on social media shortly before the tragedy.
The Nithi Bridge is considered one of the most important bridges in Kenya. most dangerous roads (archived here).
But in the image circulating online, the Nithi Bridge is not visible.
Chinese highway
A reverse image search led to civil engineering accounts on Facebook And X who published the image on April 8, 2024 (archived here And here). They identified the bridge as the “Xuguang Expressway” in China.
AFP Fact Check in Hong Kong found a clamp from the bridge on the Asian video platform Bilibili (archived here).
The video’s caption describes the structure as the Dubu Elevated Bridge, the “highest viaduct in Asia” and part of the Xuguang Expressway in Qingyuan, Guangdong.
A comparison of the footage of the false poles and the video on Bilibili shows that the bridge’s support pillars and the yellow guardrails along the road are the same.
The same part of the highway is also visible on Baidu Maps And Google Maps.
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If Google Maps shows, the Nithi Bridge in Kenya has a completely different structure.
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Nithi is lower than the bridge in China and has silver, not yellow, barricades.
