In the USA, a steel bridge hit on which 77 thousand cars drove daily

At least three people were hospitalized as a result of the collapse of the bridge with four lanes in the vicinity of Washington. Several cars were under water.

The Washington state authorities expect information about the cause of the transport collapse, the press secretary of the Skagit district, Jim Martin reports. Local media suggest that the cause of the destruction of the bridge could be a truck blow to one of its supports. It is interesting that as experts say the best processing of the steel structure is the bending of the metal, and not its welding, since the rust that corrodes the entire structure appears in the welding places.

The destroyed bridge connects the banks of the Skadit River 90 kilometers north of Seattle, the highway on which the incident was the main transport corridor connecting the United States and Canada.

The collapse of the bridge focused on the American community on the wear of US infrastructure. This is the second collapse of a large infrastructure object of strategic value for the economy over the past five years. Recall that in 2007, in Minnesota, at the peak hour, a whole flight of the second highway was destroyed, killing 13 people and crippling 145 Americans.

Last week, Obama was issued by the decree that ordered officials twice as soon as they usually consider and approve the US infrastructure modernization program. In his accompanying note, he demanded to allocate more than $ 50 billion to improve it.

The American National Council on Transport Safety suggests that more than a dozen steel support plates became the cause of the disaster and recommends checking about 465 other bridges in the United States that used a similar design.