I'm somewhat surprised nobody has started a thread about this.

A Motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa earlier today;

Hell on earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLP5shZciU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Scroll down to the fourth photo.

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Grim.

Not the first motorway bridge to collapse abroad in recent times.

Terrible tragedy.

Bloody hell. That's not good.

It could have been a lot worse if it had collapsed over the apartment blocks...what that lorry driver on the very edge must have gone through.

tim_noone wrote:It could have been a lot worse if it had collapsed over the apartment blocks...what that lorry driver on the very edge must have gone through.

He probably went through a clean pair of pants.

An engineer two years ago warned that this bridge was in a **** state.

Imploding Turtle wrote:He probably went through a clean pair of pants.

An engineer two years ago warned that this bridge was in a **** state.

Horrific pictures

If that is true about the engineer's warnings certain people will face some awkward questions quite rightly.

to say the fatalities will likely rise in the coming hours.

tiger76 wrote:Horrific pictures

If that is true about the engineer's warnings certain people will face some awkward questions quite rightly.

to say the fatalities will likely rise in the coming hours.

It's Italy. They might end up jailing the engineer for not convincing them to act.

Bed week again in Italy, first the lorry crash/explosion on the Autostrada at Bologna, near the Ducati factory, and now another earthquake further South, as well as theis bridge colapse.

Corruption and bridges really doesn't mix. We had the Troja bridge collapse last year in Prague, which i know i used several times between the zoo and the boat dock, along with several other clarets.

They really don't take too much neglect to become dangerous

The BBC report says that work was going on with the footings of the tower that collapsed. Can't help wondering if that plus the heavy rain, and it being beside a river, contributed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45193614" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hipper wrote:The BBC report says that work was going on with the footings of the tower that collapsed. Can't help wondering if that plus the heavy rain, and it being beside a river, contributed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45193614" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nope. It was Brussels, apparently. Salvini couldn't wait to blame the EU. Don't ask me what Brussels did, but i'm assured by the Italian Deputy PM that they are responsible.
I suppose at least this means no scientists will be going to jail for not predicting the weather that might have contributed to it.