下水道管内部に運転席か　陥没現場の下流、ドローンで発見―埼玉

　埼玉県八潮市の県道交差点で道路が陥没し、トラックが転落した事故で、県は５日、現場の下流にある下水道管の内部で、運転席部分とみられる物体を発見したと明らかにした。安否不明となっている男性運転手（７４）の姿は確認できていないという。
　下水道管の下流で何かが詰まっている可能性があるとして、内部にドローンを投入して調査していたところ、陥没現場の百数十メートル下流で、変形した白色の金属の塊を発見した。（2025/02/05-20:13）

An object that appears to be the cab of a truck trapped in a road sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has been found inside an underground sewer pipe downstream from the site.
   But the 74-year-old male driver of the truck has not been discovered, Saitama prefectural government officials said Wednesday.
   A drone deployed to investigate the inside of the sewer pipe found a deformed white metal mass that could be the truck cab more than 100 meters downstream from the cave-in site in the city of Yashio, the officials said.
   In the incident that occurred around 9:50 a.m. on Jan. 28, part of an intersection in the city collapsed, causing the truck to fall. The loading platform of the truck has already been recovered.
   "I think we have taken a step forward," Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono told reporters Wednesday, referring to the discovery of the apparent truck cab. "Although the situation is extremely difficult, we hope a miracle will happen," he added.