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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => General => Topic started by: eye30 on July 22, 2011, 16:16:52

Title: Truck Brings Bridge Crashing Down In China
Post by: eye30 on July 22, 2011, 16:16:52

A truck overloaded with sand has caused a bridge to collapse in China - leaving a scene that looked like the aftermath of an earthquake.


Click on the second picture as it is a vid:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/truck-causes-bridge-collapse-china-214207885.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/truck-causes-bridge-collapse-china-214207885.html)

Title: Re: Truck Brings Bridge Crashing Down In China
Post by: Shambles on July 22, 2011, 17:21:12

There's just no reinforcement showing in the debris.

Poorly constructed.


And all that, for a couple of hundred bucks worth of sand...

Title: Re: Truck Brings Bridge Crashing Down In China
Post by: Dazzler on July 22, 2011, 21:45:18

Wonder if there was a weight warning before the bridge ?