“It may leak some more there’s only about 20 gallons left in there,” he said. The truck leaked diesel fuel, Geldart said the cleanup crew is working carefully to make sure there aren’t any more leaks. Geldart said he believed the clearance of the bridge was 14 feet, and that the truck itself would have been able to pass under it it’s not known yet whether the load it was carrying was low enough.
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Police interviewed the truck driver at the hospital, Geldart said. Multiple cars were involved in the crash behind the truck in all, five people were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. 295), collapsed just before noon, the fire department said. The bridge near Lane Place in Northeast, near the Polk Street Service Road exit over Kenilworth Avenue (D.C. 295 and forgot to lower its boom, which collided with the bridge, causing it to collapse. police, it concluded that a boom truck working at a nearby construction yard got on D.C. Geldart also said after receiving the incident report from D.C. But in this case, this bridge was rated at a 4 just in May, when the report was completed, so we’re starting to make its way into our capital projects for next year.” “As a bridges need repair, especially as they started getting into disrepair, when we start to get below a 4, then they go into emergency repairs. “We are on a two-year cycle that we do inspect all our bridges,” Geldart said. Geldart said after an afternoon news conference, officials investigated the bridge’s inspection history “deeper” and found the correct rating, but it “doesn’t take into account a truck hitting it.” have a score of 4 and need to go through a capital project in order to start repairs or rehabilitations. “But it doesn’t mean that anything is gonna, you know, the bridge is gonna fall down with a score of a 4.” “A 4 means that there are some issues with the bridge that it needs to get into our capital projects,” Geldart said. CLICK TO EXPAND: The collapsed bridge over Kenilworth Avenue.
In its most recent inspection, it received a 4 or “poor” rating. However, in a news conference late Wednesday evening, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chris Geldart said after speaking with the bridge engineers, it was given a 5 or “fair” rating on a national scale from 0 to 9 in 2019. Officials had said that the bridge on Kenilworth Avenue in Northeast was last inspected in February and no structural concerns were found. The highway reopened around 1 a.m., after having been shut down for more than 13 hours.
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295 in Northeast D.C., after a truck hit the structure, shutting down a major roadway for thousands of drivers and causing traffic delays. officials clarified the status of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto D.C.
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