Overloaded trucks at fault for bridge collapse
By Zhou Huiying in Harbin and Chen Xin in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-20 07:50
Harbin authorities said on Wednesday that overloading caused the collapse of a bridge that killed three and injured five on Aug 24.
Four overloaded trucks, weighing more than 480 metric tons altogether, were on the right side of a 122-meter ramp of the Qunli viaduct project, said Liu Xingming, deputy head of a team investigating the accident.
That made the ramp tilt to one side and crash to the ground, plunging all four trucks to the pavement below, Liu told a news conference.
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