Yesterday, the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed, sending cars and people into the water.
As you can see from the shocking footage above and images below, both the northbound and southbound lanes on the bridge were affected.
RT @jonhumbert: ON SCENE: up close view of bridge collapse: twitter.com/jonhumbert/sta… #I5brdgecollape #SkagitBridge
— KOMO News (@komonews) May 24, 2013
According to the Huffington Post, the bridge spans 1,111 feet and is located 60 miles north of Seattle. Shockingly, a member of the Washington State Department didn’t know when the bridge was last inspected and said “All of our bridges in the area are pretty old.”
Luckily no one was killed, but three people were injured in the incident.