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CoolCly posted...

So what's the death toll looking like?

It sounds like just some workers on the bridge and a few vehicles are all it ended up being? Like maybe single digits or a couple dozen?

That's obviously really horrifying for those people, but when I saw the bridge collapsing I thought it was a packed bridge full of cars - that would be truly nightmarish.

News reports are that there were 8 people involved/on the bridge at the time of the collapse - all construction crew (the road had been closed for traffic while they were doing roadwork) - of which 2 have been rescued (1 in critical condition) and the other 6 unaccounted for.

It's not impossible there were other people on the bridge that the state did not know about but it seems like between the time this occurred, the closure of the bridge for construction, and the ship's mayday we averted a worst case scenario. Still absolutely tragic for those who were there (and unfortunately I fear the 6 unaccounted for, if they haven't been found yet, are unlikely to have good outcomes) and for the city at large - but this absolutely could have been a triple-digit casualty event or worse if this had been rush hour or something.