A \u201cblack spot\u201d refers to a notoriously dangerous section of road.<\/p>\n
The following day, another Facebook post<\/a> repeated the claim but was deleted after being shared more than 100 times.<\/p>\n However, the same claim and image appeared again in a Facebook post<\/a> as well as on X (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Twelve people were killed on August 31, 2024, when a 10-seater van collided<\/a> with a pickup truck at the Nithi Bridge on the Embu-Meru highway in the eastern region of Kenya (archived here<\/a>).<\/p>\n According to local reports, the victims were part of a group that had just attended a parental blessing ceremony and shared a video of their celebrations on social media shortly before the tragedy.<\/p>\n Nithi Bridge is regarded as one of Kenya’s most dangerous<\/a> roads (archived here<\/a>).<\/p>\n But the image circulating online does not show Nithi Bridge.<\/p>\n A reverse image search<\/a> led to civil engineering accounts on Facebook<\/a> and X<\/a> that published the image on April 8, 2024 (archived here<\/a> and here<\/a>). They identified the bridge as the \u201cXuguang Expressway\u201d in China.<\/p>\n AFP Fact Check in Hong Kong found a clip<\/a> of the bridge on the Asian video-sharing platform Bilibili (archived\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n The video\u2019s caption describes the structure as the Dubu Elevated Bridge, the \u201chighest viaduct in Asia\u201d, and a part of the Xuguang Expressway in Qingyuan, Guangdong.<\/p>\nHorrific crash<\/h3>\n
Chinese highway<\/h3>\n