The Lixinsha Bridge is located in the Nansha district was at the time the fastest growing port of southern China.

[2][3] Local authorities said that reinforcement work, including constructing "collision avoidance facilities" at four bridge piers, had been completed in 2022.

The vehicles in the collapse included an electric motorbike and a public bus carrying only the driver.

[3] Staff from the China Railway Construction Corporation conducted on-site inspection after the collision assessed that there would not be any risk of a second collapse of the bridge.

Based on the assessments of the bridge and its surroundings on-site, a repair and reinforcement plan would be formulated.

In the collision, some of the fiber optics cables were damaged and cause the communications to be interrupted briefly for the day.