Florida bridge collapse

Voicemail about crack in Florida bridge wasn’t picked up

An engineer left a voicemail two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami to say some cracking had been found at one end of the concrete span, but the voicemail wasn’t picked up until after the collapse, Florida Department of Transportation officials says.

March 17, 2018
March 17, 2018

Voicemail about crack in Florida bridge wasn’t picked up

An engineer left a voicemail two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami to say some cracking had been found at one end of the concrete span, but the voicemail wasn’t picked up until after the collapse, Florida Department of Transportation officials says.