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Truck crash may have caused Washington bridge collapse
OLYMPIA, Washington -- A truck crashed into a four-lane freeway bridge in Washington state Thursday evening and may have caused it to collapse, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river, officials said. A U.S. National Transportation...Tags: Government, Highway Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Executive Branch
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Truck crash may have caused Washington state bridge collapse
ReutersOLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A truck crashed into a four-lane freeway bridge in Washington state Thursday evening and may have caused it to collapse, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river, officials said. A U.S. National...Tags: Government, Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Executive Branch, Barbara Williams
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I-5 bridge collapse caused by truck hitting span
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit River was caused by an oversize truck hitting the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. "For reasons unknown at this point in time the semi struck the overhead...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Jay Inslee, Transportation Industry, Hospitals and Clinics
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I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Jay Inslee, Transportation Industry, Hospitals and Clinics
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Truck strike may have caused Washington state bridge collapse, officials says
ReutersBy Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Wash., May 24 (Reuters) - A colliding truck may have triggered the collapse on Thursday of part of a four-lane freeway bridge that sent vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river in Washington state, officials said....Tags: Government, Highway Transportation, Politics, Executive Branch, Barbara Williams
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Bridge collapses in Washington state, sending cars into river
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in rural Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into the frigid water, authorities said. Two of the three people rescued from the river...
Tags: Government, Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Executive Branch, Barbara Williams
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Idea to cut BAC limit fuels talk
South Bend TribuneLowering the threshold for what is considered impaired driving is a good idea on principle, a host of local and state officials said. Whether any such lowering of the threshold becomes reality in Indiana, however, is far less certain, they said. The...Tags: Government, Politics, Executive Branch, Transportation Industry, Mike Pence
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Row between U.S. agencies over Texas plant explosion deepens
Reuters(Reuters) - A dispute between government agencies over the investigation into the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant intensified on Thursday when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives hit back after being criticized by the U.S....Tags: Police Investigations, Explosions, Disasters and Accidents, Kennedy Airport, Witnesses
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Getting drunken drivers off road
From the St. Louis Post-DispatchWhen bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunken driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce the allowable blood-alcohol concentration to 0.05 percent is reasonable. If the...Tags: Highway Transportation, Ronald Reagan, Transportation Industry, Bill Clinton
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A sober approach to drunk driving
In its new report on how to reduce drunken driving deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board states its goal in the title: "Reaching Zero." The agency thinks it is irreproachable to try to ensure that no one ever dies in an alcohol-related...
Tags: Drunk Driving, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Transportation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Commute Should Be Back To Normal This Morning As Wreck Site Is Cleared
The Hartford CourantMetro-North and Amtrak said their trains will run normal weekday schedules on Wednesday morning, for the first time since a Metro-North train derailed near the Fairfield border on Friday and crashed into a train on the adjacent track. Regular service...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Transportation Industry, Grand Central Terminal, Amtrak
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Metro-North To Resume Full Service Wednesday, Partial Service Tuesday
The Hartford Courant— Traffic was heavy again Tuesday morning as commuters endured one more day without rail service from Bridgeport into New York. At least one backup plan — commuters boarding buses to get to a train — was working, albeit slowly. There...Tags: Railway Transportation, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Stratford, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Middletown
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