I-70 overpass...
Beam fell from bridge under construction over I-70 near Denver and hit vehicle on I-70. One confirmed fatality.
My son drove under that beam on his way to a track meet
this morning about an hour before it fell. I am still
shaking thinking that it could have been him in the accident.
Conscientious construction supervisors and construction
engineers don't have these accidents happen. It is the ambitious supervisors and engineers cutting corners trying to get promoted that have these accidents. Sometimes they are lucky and get away with it for years and get promoted.
For the conscientious supervisors it is a thankless job,
and the bosses are oblivious to what they have gotten by the conscientious ones double checking everything before an operation is performed. The contractor could pay them a little more for twenty five years for less than what one wreck like this will cost them. I did this for forty years without an accident but most of the bosses never realized
the mishaps that could have ocurred without careful checking beforehand.