Thanks!

I'm watching KING-5's website for the photos as they are posted.

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The current reporting is that an oversized load hit the bridge.

 

It's been a long time since I was on here. Thought I'd pop in and say hi and see how the site/chapter are doing. Ill post an updated picture of my ride in the "post a pic of your ride" thread.

 

Welcome back. Just a few new members and we have started Monthly Meets. Otherwise I don't think much has changed.

On the topic of the I-5 bridge, I have only heard/read that it collapse with people on it. The City inspector said they didn't know when the last time they were inspected and that the bridges around there are all old.

 

someone just sent me this link about it I-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River near Mount Vernon; cars in river - Local - MyNorthwest.com

 

WOW!
I have been over that bridge quite a few times and the last time
was the of last summer.
The one good thing is no one killed. Or so the report says.

Sean

 

Below is likely about the last thing the OTR truck driver saw before hitting the bridge.

Was it too high, or too wide?

Some reports are having him too wide, and some as too high.

If he had moved into the fast lane, all this might not have happened.

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Hmm if he was too high, I don't know that moving over a lane would have worked. there isn't much but a few inches difference.

 

From what I have been able to gather the truck was about to cross the bridge straddling the lanes but another semi came up on his left and prevented him from moving left. And from what I see of a damage and accounts of the trucks impact with the bridge. The load clipped the top right corner but that's not what damaged the bridge. That impact turned the truck to the right slamming it into a the barrier which it climbed and slammed into the side structure of the bridge.

Look at this pic, the cross beam that everyone points at him hitting is rather undamaged but the first vertical I-beam is sheared off right at the top of the barrier. With the beam pushed against the next beam. The next few are underwater but what would be the 5th beam struck you can clearly see with a almost 90 deg bend in it where it was hit.

Just my theory but the truck it seams basically took out the 2nd thru 6th vertical and 45 deg I-beams of the bridge.

 

There are six horizontal overhead beams to each section of the bridge.

I'd say he took out only the third and maybe fourth verticals, and hit the second overhead. I believe he may have actually missed the initial overhead beam, as it looks pretty intact.

At any rate, this should be REAL easy for the NTSB to re-construct.

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Well that collapse is causing traffic nightmares. I was up in Burlington this afternoon picking up a car, and I was stuck in between two lights for about 20 minutes

Well on the plus side, I picked up myself a Baja bug! Go check it out

TheSamba.com :: View topic - Summer Project Car

 

Very nice, already posted about it. That that sucker running so we can bring them down to a ford me the party crashers.

 

Nice.
How about some photos of the pan under the battery.

Sean

 

Found a photo of the truck and the load at this link.
Not much damage that I see.

Here is a good set of photos.
'Horrified' trucker watches I-5 bridge collapse behind him | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News
This is a link to the main page with some video.
'Horrified' trucker watches I-5 bridge collapse behind him | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

Sean

 

I almost can't believe that that's the same truck or load that caused the bridge collapse.

Where's the damage to the load?

So, drilling equipment enclosures are built that much better than our nation's bridges?

Sheeeeesh! Whooda' thunkit'?

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