I live pretty close by in the area where the bridge is/was and tuned into the local police scanner around 2:30a. There was some chatter about a mayday call from the ship that gave the bridge authority just enough time to stop traffic. But not enough time for 7 or 8 construction workers on the deck to evac. The vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed were construction, not emergency.
Mayday call was given, traffic was not stopped in time and there was a crew of 20 working on the bridge. At this time 6-7 car/trucks and one tractor trailer are known to fall in
Thank you for this context. Hopefully this can be verified with others who recorded those radio calls in a way that it cannot be disputed regarding timing (ie recording those radio calls later & pretending they were done just before the collapse).
I live pretty close by in the area where the bridge is/was and tuned into the local police scanner around 2:30a. There was some chatter about a mayday call from the ship that gave the bridge authority just enough time to stop traffic. But not enough time for 7 or 8 construction workers on the deck to evac. The vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed were construction, not emergency.
Mayday call was given, traffic was not stopped in time and there was a crew of 20 working on the bridge. At this time 6-7 car/trucks and one tractor trailer are known to fall in
Thank you for this context. Hopefully this can be verified with others who recorded those radio calls in a way that it cannot be disputed regarding timing (ie recording those radio calls later & pretending they were done just before the collapse).
I really hope this is what happened.
Again thank you for this context.
A MayDay-All call was given