I-5 Skagit River Crossing Bridge Open
WSDOT has announced that traffic is now moving north and south on the new temporary bridging across the Skagit River at Mt. Vernon, WA. Lanes are a littler narrower, and speed is reduced to 40mph acr...
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Golden_HVAC wrote:
That is great news.
I wonder what happened to the trucking company that had it's truck cross the bridge when the span fell? IS there a limit to what their insurance company must pay to repair the bridge?
Fred.
I suspect this will go to court.
*The Pilot Car driver is claiming her 16 ft pole didn't touch the bridge (but notes she was on the cell-phone at the time). Despite the fact the "high" side of the bridge was lower then that...
*The truck-driver is claiming he was "pushed over" by another trucker passing him on the bridge
*The truck-driver stopped, right after the bridge went down and waited for the State Patrol
*Both WS-DOT and NTSB say the Pilot Car driver wouldn't talk to them for days afterward, in-fact they went on the news to "comment" about how she was not talking.
