Tuesday's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge following a ship strike brought back memories of people who survived previous bridge collapses.
A survivor of the Minnesota bridge collapse says the collapse felt like an amusement park rideThere are a few seconds of falling, with thoughts possibly racing about family or loved ones, followed by a jarring impact, and most likely injury.
“I remember looking around and thinking that there was definitely something wrong,” Paul said. “I looked ahead and realized that the center section of the bridge was going down, and knew at that point that there was a good chance I would go down with it. And that is exactly what happened.”Police later told her that she plunged down a 50-foot slope as the concrete deck of the bridge collapsed. She was still inside the minivan as it fell onto wreckage on the riverbank.
Then she was knocked unconscious, suffering a concussion and injuries that broke her back in four spots. Morales was on his way home from a late night managing a restaurant on South Padre Island at the time. He remembers it feeling like a rumble or explosion — and then his pickup truck flew over the collapsed roadway for a few seconds before crashing into the water. Thoughts of his wife, who was expecting their third child, flooded his mind.
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