Taiwan bridge collapse

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Gav
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Taiwan bridge collapse

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC9_X2mEhqg

this is scary, thankfully no deaths. Some lucky escapes....
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Gav wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 21:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC9_X2mEhqg

this is scary, thankfully no deaths. Some lucky escapes....
No deaths confirmed but several people not accounted for. Its a bit of an odd design with a steel arch and a roadway suspended by cables.
http://www2.maaconsultants.com/en/proje ... p?dpid=116

Either the deck or cables seems to have failed and then the arch came down.
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