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iciHaiti - FLASH : Bridge collapse on Rivière grise
19/03/2016 09:17:54

Friday, around 8:30 am the metal bridge 62 meters long by 20 meters wide, cast on Rivière grise on Route 9, connecting Cité soleil to the National #1 (north of the capital), partially collapsed at the passage of a dump truck carrying gravel. Note that this infrastructure, who sees every day nearly a hundred of heavily loaded trucks, was provided to support a maximum load of 20 tons, a rarely respected limit and often exceeded...

Alert, the Civil Protection Department (DPC) of the Ministry of Interior has sent brigadiers to the scene for the purpose of emergency response.

If no casualties were reported, the accident site however, was secured to prevent any other incidents at the scene, which remain relatively dangerous, pending the intervention of specific institutions for major mechanical actions.

An accident yet predictable on this old infrastructure of 20 years, which was not maintained by the Ministry of Public Works and whose bolted devices of several connections were stolen, without anyone worries about the consequences...

SL/ iciHaiti