Truck weighed in at over 50 tons - were 19 tons

The Bridge collapse in the southwest of France, with two deaths was probably triggered by heavy trucks. The on Monday in the river Tarn overturned vehicle had transported a "more than 50 tons of" heavy construction machine. This is the competent state Prosecutor, Dominique Alzeari said on Tuesday. The vehicle was more than twice as heavy as the maximum weight of 19 tons. The authorities then began an investigation for negligent homicide.

"The fact that this is a heavy vehicle used the bridge, seems in the present state of the investigations to the immediate and obvious cause of the accident," said Alzeari. The signs of the 1931-built bridge is not explicitly stated, "is that you can only use a truck at the same time, and that his formal payload 19 tons of limited," he added.

The truck driver was driving according to previous findings of the investigators on the bridge, "in spite of the light horns and Warnhupen" the behind him, moving truck, said the Prosecutor. The first driver got triggered so presumably the "immediate and total" collapse of the bridge. In the investigations, among other things, shots of the divers had been spotted.

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"was It a truck in the Oversize, the bridge collapsed," had already declared, before the mayor of the town of Mirepoix-sur-Tarn, Eric Oget,. The French environment state Secretary Emmanuelle Wargon language, however, is initially a hypothesis, and noted that the bridge had been 2017 checked. Also, a control in 2018 and have no visible weaknesses.

The heavy-duty, served according to local authorities for the Transport of construction equipment. He belonged to a construction company in the Region to the North of the large city of Toulouse, whose offices had been after the accident, searched.

the driver of The truck came to his life in the accident. He was initially listed as missing. His body was recovered on Monday evening. The second death of the victims is a 15-Year-old crossed during the accident with your mother in the car on the bridge. The mother could be rescued from the river. According to the Prosecutor she was "injured and traumatised".

4000 in need of repair bridges

The metal bridge came from the year 1931 and was renovated in 2003. Experts criticize the French government's investing for years, to little money in the infrastructure. They fear a similar disaster as in August 2018, in the Italian city of Genoa, where the collapse of the Morandi bridge, in which 43 people were killed.

In an expert report commissioned by the French government in the past year from 4000 need repair bridges in the country, the speech. Seven percent of bridges with serious deficiencies have been identified. (roy/SDA)

Created: 20.11.2019, 00:43 PM