Bridge collapses onto highway

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wfz said:

akuma587 said:
Woohoo! Thank goodness we have enough money in our highway fund to fix these problems before they happen! Oh wait...we only care if people are killed and the word terrorist is involved.

 

Yeah, wtf is wrong with our country not investing in telepathic education?!?!?! We could have stopped the Cherry Picker from hitting the bridge with our foresight!

The engineers who designed the bridge should have accounted for that as an accidental load. They might have but fatigue might have just weakened the bridge significantly (not knowing how long this bridge had been in service or the amount of periodic stress it was designed to support). Whatever, this happens with a lot of bridges in the U.S. There is bridge near my city that was designed to support only 20000 cars per day but the actual load is at least 5 times that.