whitelilac
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I have been watching and wondering why they have just been standing around all this time...not really digging out like you see with tornado or earthquake situations.
Restaurant owner talks about running over and seeing a car that was flattened in the front with no possible survivors but little boy in backseat crying for help and the rescue workers made the woman leave for her safety. She sounded devastated as she told the story. So sad
Fox News reporting there was a stress test underway when the bridge collapsed.
(live tv)
Interviewees on CNN are referring to the pedestrian bridge having been built ABC - Accelerated Bridge Construction. Less obstruction to traffic, built quickly.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/abc/
20/20 hindsight: Road beneath the pedestrian bridge should have been closed to all traffic during the test.
Witness Tiona Page told ABC News that the screams coming from the cars were "terrifying."
Florida congressman Carlos Curbelo said he had been told a stress test was underway when the bridge collapsed.
“There was some testing taking place, and it is a very good question that must be answered — why more precautions weren’t taken before conducting this type of stress test if indeed that was the case,” he said.
Two of the eight victims taken to hospital were construction workers who had been on top of the bridge when it collapsed.
2 companies involved in the bridge construction have built other bridges which collapsed. Miami is a very corrupt city
for doing business there. Lots of payoff done to get work and contracts. Like a third world country in some ways.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/tw...n-bridge-also-built-collapsed-bridges-report/
FIU bridge collapse: Several killed after pedestrian bridge at Florida college collapses
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pedestrian...tional-university-collapses/story?id=53774444
Includes many photos of the scene.