"Typically, breakdowns — bridge washouts, overpass collapses, dam breaches — must occur before politicians and voters react to need," one global infrastructure report observes.
Eleby has maintained he did his thing and left the area before the fire that caused the overpass collapse began.
Reports of damage were limited, but an emergency official in Rancagua said a highway overpass had collapsed.
About 12 bridges and overpasses have collapsed in Italy since 2004, killing seven people between them.
B1 Heavy Rains Lash Region Heavy rains lashed the New York area, snarling traffic and possibly causing part of an overpass to collapse into the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, hitting a van and injuring its driver, authorities said.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 — A freeway overpass under construction collapsed on Tuesday, injuring a road worker, trapping a truck driver for hours and snarling commuter traffic in the fast-growing area of Butte County, about 152 miles northeast of here.
Two people were injured, when portions of on overpass of Highway 101 collapsed on the train tracks below.
The Santa Julia highway overpass located between Rancagua and Graneros collapsed, and part of the Pan-American highway was damaged.
A gasoline tanker exploded Wednesday night beneath a highway overpass In Hazel Park, Mich ,near Detroit, collapsing part of the overpass onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 below.
The are four rails near the starting point of the stage that cause a tremors, grinding all four of them causes the overpass (or highway) to collapse.
