Where did the road incident happen?
A photo showing a woman slipped on a paved road was posted on social media with a claim saying the road incident happened in Cambodia’s Kandal province. The photo had been multiple shared by Khmer-speaking social media users along with a mixture of comments and reactions. After running Google Reverse Image, however, it can be proofed the claim is misleading.
Social Media Claim
On November 29, a Facebook user posted a photo in a group of social media. The photo shows a woman slipped on a sport of paved road where rice was dried on. The Facebook user claimed the road incident took place in Kandal province, Cambodia.
The photo with the claim had been reshared along with comments and reactions from Facebook users; some of them questioned where the road incident really happened.
Below is a capture of the Facebook user’s post read: “A road is for traveling, not for drying paddy rice (Photo: Kandal province)”
The same photo has been published by other social media users. Below are the captures of the same photo posted by different Facebook users – leading to many shares and comments as well.
Fact Check
Fact Crescendo Cambodia begins checking the claim mentioned by running Google Reverse Image – leading us to the same photo and its information as well.
The photo is found in an article published by Vietnam’s media named the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) in June 2018. VOV reported the road incident took place at a spot of a paved road in Thanh Xuan, Soc Son district, Hanoi. It happened just a day before publication.
The photo caption in the VOV’s report says the woman in the photo slipped and got injured after her motorbike hit a brick holding a big tent used to dry paddy rice.
Below is the capture of the VOV’s photo with a caption saying the drying paddy rice on a spot of paved road leads to the road incident.
This case happened in Vietnam more than three years ago, but some villagers in rural areas of Cambodia also used part of paved road to dry their paddy rice and other crops.
Conclusion
Fact Crescendo Cambodia found out the claim as mentioned above is misleading. The road incident in the photo did not happen in Cambodia’s Kandal province. In fact, the photo shows a woman slipping on a spot on the paved road in June 2018 after her motorbike hit a brick holding tent used to lay out paddy rice for drying on a part of the road in Soc Son district, a part of Vietnam’s Hanoi capital city.
