Another sinkhole appeared on a road in Thailand as concerns are raised over the country's collapsing infrastructure.

The pavement collapsed, creating a 3ft-deep hole along Sukhumvit Road in Samut Prakan province, on Monday morning.

Authorities said the sinkhole was caused by a broken water pipe that eroded the road foundation. It triggered heavy traffic congestion as the lane had to be closed for safety.

Praphan Siriphat, an engineer for the local electricity authority, said the water pipe had ruptured earlier that morning.

He said: 'Initially, I had workers plug the leak with rubber, and we thought the situation was resolved. However, after about two hours, the road collapsed, creating a hole approximately 2 metres by 3 metres.'

He added that workers would cut the road joints before excavating the site and filling it with crushed stone as a temporary solution. Steel plates would then be installed to temporarily allow traffic to pass normally.

The incident is the latest in a series of infrastructural blunders in the Southeast Asian nation.

Just a day earlier, a sinkhole swallowed a car on Rama II Road in Samut Sakhon province. The road is the same site where a crane collapse killed two drivers on January 15.

While on January 14, a high-speed rail project crane collapsed onto a train in Nakhon Ratchasima, leaving at least 32 passengers dead and dozens more injured.

In September 2025, a giant sinkhole 16ft-deep appeared on Samsen Road in Bangkok. Officials said soil erosion caused by an unfinished and unsecured section of the MRT Purple Line tunnel had caused the collapse. An underground sewer pipeline later burst and worsened the erosion.

The consecutive accidents have sparked intense public scrutiny on construction contractor Italian-Thai Development, which is responsible for the sites where the two horror crane collapses happened. The company was also the lead contractor for the State Audit Office building - the sole structure in Bangkok to topple in deadly earthquake that killed dozens of people in March.

Critics have blamed lax safety and construction standards, poor enforcement, and corruption for the infrastructural problems.