Videos show workers on Florida bridge before collapse
Posted August 16, 2018 7:45 am.
Last Updated August 16, 2018 8:20 am.
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MIAMI – New videos show construction workers labouring on a pedestrian bridge in Florida shortly before it collapses, killing six people.
The time-lapse video released Wednesday by Florida International University shows the four construction workers using a crane hoist to perform work on the bridge.
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board suggests investigators are focused on cracks in the south and north ends of the bridge near a Miami-area university campus.
The cracks were discovered in the days before the March 15 collapse, which killed a bridge worker and five people in vehicles crushed by the falling structure.
The bridge was to have spanned a busy highway and canal and connected Florida International University’s campus to the neighbouring community of Sweetwater.
