Dashcam Video Shows FIU Bridge As It Collapses — Engineer Warned Of Cracks On Tuesday

On March 17th, 2018 Tea Partier published this dashcam video on YouTube:

Tea Partier wrote:

A dashcam video posted by on Instagram captured the exact moment the new pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Miami collapsed, killing at least 6 people. The latest reporting on the disaster suggests there were cracks in the bridge that we[re] discovered on Tuesday but not addressed: — Patricia Mazzei: BREAKING: Florida Department of Transportation says engineer from Figg team left voicemail on Tuesday warning of cracking in FIU bridge: “obviously the cracking is not good and something’s going to have to be, ya know, done to repair that.” — Apparently the FDOT employee didn’t listen to the voicemail until Friday: — Patricia Mazzei: “Voicemail was left Tuesday on FDOT employee’s landline. Employee was not in office and didn’t hear voicemail til Friday.”

We should point out it’s not known if the cracks — which admittedly sound bad — actually had anything to do with the bridge’s failure: — Patricia Mazzei: FDOT bolded this part of its statement. The agency has gone through some length to place the responsibility for the bridge on FIU. No one has said at this point why the bridge collapsed or whether the “cracking” might’ve been an issue. — The engineer didn’t suggest there was a safety issue in his voicemail: — Patricia Mazzei: “In the voicemail, Figg’s engineer also noted the company did not thing there were safety concerns due to the cracking.” — According to other reporting, workers were in the process of strengthening the north side of the bride when it collapsed: — Monique O. Madan: “.@NTSB_Newsroom officials say workers were working on strengthening the north side of the #fiubridge during the collapse.”

And the photos of the recovery are heartbreaking: — Monique O. Madan: “The mother and family of one of the trapped drivers weeps as she watches rescue crews try to dig up her daughter’s body from the rubble. #fiubridge#FIUBridgecollapse” https://twitter.com/MoniqueOMadan/sta…

Twitchy: YIKES: These DISTURBING details make deadly FIU bridge collapse even MORE tragic https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/201…

Twitchy: Dashcam video shows FIU bridge as it collapses; Engineer warned of cracks on Tuesday http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/03…

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Emergency personnel responding to the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University on Thursday, March 13th, 2018. Photo by ROBERTO KOLTUN/AP.

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