Part of the bridge crashed into the river which halted all rail traffic for six weeks.
On March 27 , 2003 his M1A1 Abrams tank skidded off a bridge, crashed through a guardrail and landed upside down in the Euphrates River.
The fact that all of the images showed a light post from the bridge crashing to the ground at the rear of the vehicle appeared to support this account.
The YouTube video of that bridge crashing into the raging river was Vermont's iconic image from its worst disaster in memory, the record flooding that followed Hurricane Irene's rampage through the state in August 2011.
One person was killed and four others were seriously injured when an S.U.V. being driven the wrong way on the Tappan Zee Bridge crashed head-on into another vehicle, setting off a pileup and snarling traffic for hours, the police said on Wednesday.
It has always been the case that being in the wrong place at the wrong time can have disastrous consequences, but never before has it been the case that one's chance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, in an otherwise 'safe' country, can result in death or injury from a weapon (as opposed to a car crash, bridge collapse, or lightning strike, for example).
In Cobquecura, 50 miles north of Concepción, state television showed collapsed bridges, crashed buses and sunken pavement.
This is another easy prediction, because the tragedy happened so close to when the SOTU speech was scheduled (as the original "SOTU hero moment" did, under President Reagan, after the 14th Street Bridge airline crash happened).
One matter-of-fact photograph, for example, pictures two demolished vehicles: a truck stuck in the railings of the Williamsburg Bridge after crashing near the entrance ramp and a demolished horse cart involved in a separate accident on the pavement below.
Footage of the plane filmed from inside passing cars showed it banking sharply, hitting a taxi and clipping the bridge before crashing into the river.
