Thought i'd post it here as well as in the World News forum as not many people check that forum.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3124785.shtml
9 confirmed fatalities (deaths - expected to rise much more)
20+ missing
many casualites
Originally Posted by CBSNews
AP) An interstate bridge suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River during bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday, killing at least six people and sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.
The Interstate 35W bridge, a major link between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was in the midst of being repaired when it collapsed.
"There were two lanes of traffic, bumper to bumper, at the point of the collapse. Those cars did go into the river," Minneapolis Police Lt. Amelia Huffman. "At this point there is nothing to suggest that this was anything other than a structural collapse."
Jamie Winegar of Houston said she was sitting in traffic when all of a sudden she started hearing "boom, boom, boom and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping."
The car she was riding in landed on top of a smaller car but did not fall into the water. She said her nephew yelled, "'It's an earthquake!' and then we realized the bridge was collapsing."
Mayor R.T. Rybak said at least six people were killed. There were no immediate reports on the total number of injured, but Dr. Joseph Clinton, emergency medical chief at Hennepin County Medical Center, said the hospital treated 28 injured people _ including six who were in critical condition.
Other hospitals also were treating the injured. Clinton said at least one of the victims had drowned.
The arched bridge, which was built in 1967, rises about 64 feet above the river. An estimated 50 vehicles plunged into the water and onto the land below, the Star-Tribune reported.
A burning truck and a school bus clung to one slanted slab. The bus had just crossed the bridge before it crumpled into pieces, and broadcast reports indicated the children on the bus exited out the back door.
Christine Swift's 10-year-old daughter, Kaleigh, was on the bus, returning from a field trip to Bunker Hills in suburban Blaine. She said her daughter called her about 6:10 p.m.
"She was screaming, 'The bridge collapsed,'" Swift said.
She said a police officer told her all the kids got off the bus safely.
Dozens of vehicles were scattered and stacked on top of each other amid the rubble. Some people were stranded on parts of the bridge that aren't completely in the water.
Melissa Hughes, 32, of Minneapolis said she was driving home across the bridge when she went down when the western edge in the collapse.
"You know that free fall feeling? I felt that twice," said Hughes, who was not injured.
A pickup ended up on top of her car, partially crushing the top and back end.
"I had no idea there was a vehicle on my car," she said. "It's really very surreal."
Many motorist could have been headed to the Minnesota Twins game scheduled not far from the bridge, but the game was postponed, team president Dave St. Peter said.
Ramon Houge told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that he was on his way home from work on the bridge when he heard a rumbling noise, saw the ground collapse and cars go down.
Traffic was bumper to bumper and hundreds of people would have been involved, he said. He said cars backed up as best they could and he parked in a construction zone and was finally able to turn around and drive off the bridge. "It didn't seem like it was real," he said.
Local television stations captured video of injured people being carried up the riverbank. There was no official word on injuries, but dozens of rescue vehicles were there. Divers were also in the water.
Workers have been repairing the 40-year-old bridge's surface as part of improvements along that stretch of the interstate, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on its Web site.
Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke also said the collapse did not appear to be terrorism-related.
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Minneapolis Interstate Bridge Collapse
Thought i'd post it here as well as in the World News forum as not many people check that forum.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3124785.shtml
9 confirmed fatalities (deaths - expected to rise much more)
20+ missing
many casualites
Originally Posted by CBSNews
There are lots more images but these are just whats been posted on the site.Last edited by le harry; 02-08-2007 at 07:57 AM.
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Woah it collapsed twice:|
Terroism?
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Nope. Originally Posted by LeftForDead
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news...648022062.html
It was rush hour and the bridge was I think around 30 years old.
The wierd part is that about 3 weeks ago my parents were planning to go to Minneapolis but then decided we needed to cancel just a few days ago.
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Thats not as bad then, what i dont get is that they must not of been checking it our anything because there is a bridge near me that wasnt touching the bottem in the middle because over the years the posts had had the dirt washed away. And they only found that out because they were adding another bit to the bridge!
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Probs not strong enough, they should build a temporary bridge for now and make a better bridge.
shawn
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o_o I heard on bbc news that 9 people have died. That's scary as hell.
Conductor of the Runaway Train of Militant Homosexuality
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A temporary bridge? So it just falls down again..:rolleyes: Originally Posted by Doomsboy
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They think erosion from the river wore away some of the support.
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i personally think that America "exaggerate" alot, sure this is a bad thing but they make it sound much worse. It has happened a few times, 9/11 (that was like "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG A PLANE HIT THE BUILDING") and then the massacre shootings in march i think it was, and now this. They always make it 100 times bigger than it really is.
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why is "exaggerate" in quotation marks? is it a made up word? are you quoting someone? Originally Posted by ShaneIsMe
i hate it when people say "america sure does [whatever here]" like its the actual country itself. who are you talking about when you say "they"? because this just happened yesterday, and the majority of the population isn't doing anything but watching the news? who are we exaggerating to? i dont understand what you're trying to say.
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