WASHINGTON*: *A week after a massive pedestrian bridge collapsed insouthern Florida, crushing many cars and Six peiple under it, a video -captured from the dashcam of a vehicle on the highway – has surfaced,showing the 950-ton structure crumble down.
Posted on YouTube, the video shows multiple cars in three queues, waitingto pass the traffic junction just a few metres after the $14.2 millionbridge. And then it happens. The newly-built bridge plummets onto trafficon one of the busiest roads in South Florida, crushing people and carsunderneath.
The 174-feet-long bridge connected the Florida International University(FIU) with the city of Sweetwater and was indtalled in six hours over theeight-lane highway on March 15.
The bridge was intended to provide a walkway over the busy street, where an18-year-old female FIU student from San Diego was killed in August as sheattempted to cross, according to reports.
To limit disruption to traffic during construction, the 174-foot portion ofthe bridge was built adjacent to Southwest 8th Street, using a methodcalled Accelerated Bridge Construction.
The bridge was designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane, the ratinggiven the most dangerous storms by the National Hurricane Center, and builtto last 100 years.WATCH VIDEO:link