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Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by V7place(op): 7:22pm On Jun 23, 2021

(CNN) A pedestrian bridge that likely was struck by at least one vehicle collapsed onto Interstate 295 in Washington, DC, injuring several people and blocking the highway in both directions, officials said Wednesday.

Chris Geldart, acting deputy mayor for public safety and justice, told reporters that preliminary evidence shows that a collision involving multiple vehicles occurred 10 minutes before noon. The bridge came off its moorings.

Geldart said five people taken to hospitals had non-life-threatening injuries.

The span collapsed at Kenilworth Avenue before Polk Street NE, DC Fire and EMS said in a tweet. "We don't have any structural concerns about the bridge. It was last inspected in February," Mayor Muriel Bowser said.

On Wednesday night, Geldart issued a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WJLA stating that the bridge was inspected in February.

A subsequent inspection report last month concluded that the bridge was "a rating of poor condition (4) - the threshold that prompts the multiyear planning process to replace the bridge," per the statement, according to WJLA.

Officials believe a truck may have struck the bridge before the collapse, according to WJLA, and that recent construction work on the bridge was to address the safety of some of its concrete and did not involve structural issues.

Images posted by DC Fire and EMS and aerial footage from WJLA showed one side of the bridge fell onto I-295 southbound, while the part of the bridge on the northbound side remained mostly attached to an elevated platform.

Mangled concrete and metal debris was sprawled across six lanes of the highway and the bridge rested on top of several vehicles.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/23/us/pedestrian-bridge-collapse-washington-dc/index.html

Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by SportsHD: 7:23pm On Jun 23, 2021

Someone is getting sued.

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Tomilola360: 7:23pm On Jun 23, 2021*

chai buhari government!

update:
IF YOU WANT LIKES AND SHARES, JUST CONDEMN BUHARI.

see all the likes. SMH
What has Buhari got to do with the topic.

This shows how deranged and blinded these people are.

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by writetopoker: 7:32pm On Jun 23, 2021*

Bihari is a wicked man, how can he do this.

The poster above is mentally slow.

As far as am concern, buhari is cause why the bridge fell in USA, because he wasn't the president of the zoo, the USA bridge for no fall grin

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by dele1727: 7:43pm On Jun 23, 2021

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by aremuforlife(m): 7:53pm On Jun 23, 2021

Accident can happen in any world, it has nothing to with developed or developing world

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Tinubuadvocate: 8:03pm On Jun 23, 2021

Which of Buhari ?

writetopoker:
Bihar is a wicked man, how can he do this

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by tillaman(m): 8:12pm On Jun 23, 2021*

Better cash out for those wey injure!!
Sue their arses you only get on shot do not miss your chance to blow!!
Imagine if a family of 4 dey that film
All of them go smile enter bank las las

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Nobody: 8:15pm On Jun 23, 2021

dele1727:

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

what happened here was inconsequential as to the disaster that always happens here in Nigeria

Watch how it will be fixed within hours,. But in Nigeria a typical situation would take decades

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Conner44: 10:19pm On Jun 23, 2021

so no be only for 9ja this kind thing dey happen. only heaven knows how many years this bridge had been standing before its eventual collapse.

from the short fence-bridge a man constructs you can tell the wickedness of his heart

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by HarunaWest(m): 10:37pm On Jun 23, 2021

dele1727:

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

Dude STFU...why we complain about ours is cos it occurs too frequently. Can Bokoharam or herdsmen ish be occuring like this out there?
Are they having so many bad roads or epileptic power supply out there?....Think dude..

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by somehow: 10:48pm On Jun 23, 2021

aremuforlife:
Accident can happen in any world, it has nothing to with developed or developing world

Accident?

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by NewDelhi(m): 11:58pm On Jun 23, 2021

See as ambulance and rescue personnel's swiftly full every where. If na naija, na other passersby go dey do the rescue.

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by ifadamilare: 2:27am On Jun 24, 2021

no need to imagine, one happened recently in kogi state

dele1727:

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by bcomputer101: 3:36am On Jun 24, 2021

Una see your almighty USA?

Everywhere with substandard equipment.

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by nairavsdollars(f): 3:42am On Jun 24, 2021

Calamity happens. The response of government towards it is everything

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Karlovych: 4:16am On Jun 24, 2021

Jubrin's body odour at work again

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Fasindo: 5:26am On Jun 24, 2021

Wow!!!

Yahaya Bello collapsed bridge now has a colleague in USA.

This is what APC and Lai Mohammed will use to defend any of their own structures that collapse like Bello bridge

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by phemmyfour: 5:54am On Jun 24, 2021

This Buhari again

Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Akudaisi: 6:15am On Jun 24, 2021

dele1727:

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

do you even know how many years that bridge has been there, please get sense and they would even sue the parties involved if it is found they used fake materials after proper investigation,no matter how bad US is Nigeria is 1000 times more worse

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by funkybroyouknow: 7:36am On Jun 24, 2021

SportsHD:
Someone is getting sued.

more like fired and maybe criminally charged

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Khd95(m): 9:06am On Jun 24, 2021

Na okorocha build the bridge for them huh

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Khd95(m): 9:07am On Jun 24, 2021

dele1727:

Imagine this is Nigeria....

To all those who gave taken the white man as a God....
Here you are

mumu, do you know how old that bridge could be?

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by saddeeqrunka(m): 9:13am On Jun 24, 2021

Ayyaaa, sannu fa

Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Curious345: 9:16am On Jun 24, 2021

Hnmmm.

You see that ojodu Berger pedestrian bridge... Hnmmm

when walking atop the bridge, Who else noticed how it shakes and vibrates when cars drive pass underneath.

May it not collapse on our case oooo

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by lagusboyyy(m): 9:16am On Jun 24, 2021

These are the kind of examples, they will soon use to justify their bad performance.

They will never mention the good things, these advanced Nations do for their citizens.

Speedy recovery to the injured, and i pray no life will be lost to this unfortunate incident.

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Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by aj1bola: 9:17am On Jun 24, 2021*

Na okorocha construct am...

Re: Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Onto Washington DC Highway, Injuring Several People by Difrent: 9:17am On Jun 24, 2021

It's a lie
This can only happen in Nigeria
And under buhari

Where are the it can only happen in Nigeria crew

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