I-5 Skagit River collapse. Lots of pictures.
Is that a Ram in the water?
So far 3 people pulled from vehicles.
2 from the truck and
one from a small car. So far no deaths. But someone suggests there is one more vehicle that is un-seen.
Looks like the Pickup had a
vacation trailer that is crushed. Truck has a smashed roof but the rest isn't looking too bad.
While the cause of the collapse is still unknown, witnesses reported seeing
a semitruck with an oversized load crossing the bridge and striking the beams on the north end before the bridge collapsed.
"I saw it. I was less than 50 feet away from the truck when it hit it," witness Dale Ogden told KING 5. "I had just passed it in the fast lane southbound and it had an oversized load. It was approximately 12 feet wide and over 14 feet tall. It was in the slow lane when I came by...I was behind the flag car and in front of the truck in the other lane and I saw the whip - normally tells you how high they can clear - start hitting the bridge. I looked in my rearview mirror knowing this was not going to turn out well."
"I saw the truck strike the right corner of the bridge. It almost tipped the truck over but it came back down. It tipped it up to about a 30 degree angle to the left and it came back down on its wheels and almost instantaneously behind that I saw girders falling in my rearview mirror."