Posted on 05/15/2004 10:17:04 AM PDT by sathers
confirmed fatalities
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WOW! That certainly gives one something to reflect on. Glad he's safe!
In Dallas they have this giant overpass thing being setup at 75 and 635. I hate driving under it. They don't appear safe, and sometimes are not.
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Investigators are pictured at the scene of an accident on Interstate 70 west of Denver near Golden, Colo., on Saturday, May 15, 2004, where a steel girder fell from an overpass into morning highway traffic outside Denver crushing one car and killing three people. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) |
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I hate captions like this. "Investigators are pictured...". Lame. Totally lame. Investigators are not the focus of the story, nor the picture. Why not begin "A car is shown crushed under a fallen construction beam..."
J-school flunkie. Weekend J-school flunkie. If I were AP, I'd be ashamed of such writing.
Anyone want to guess whether that was an SUV and whether an SUV might have saved the lives inside the vehicle had it been hit (maybe, maybe not but their chances would definitely be better than riding around in a Honda.
Isn't this the same area where the train was derailed and the lines closed due to a rockslide a couple of days ago? There was a thread on that somewhere...
What did Bush Know and When Did he know it ?!
Did Kerry get another purple heart from this ?
That train accident was about 60 miles further up in the mountains, and to the North, in the Fraser Canyon somewhere near Tabernash. The first train derailment was in Denver city limits.
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.
Amen brother. God Bless the vast majority of civil engineers and construction site "white hats" who refuse to ever cut corners, regardless of the hurry-up pressure. I mean that sincerely.
If I were AP, I'd just be ashamed of a lot of stuff that has happened.
The way AP editors allow journos to spin a story is often atrocious and an outrage.
Like today's stories about fighting in a "holy city". A holy city can't be when filled with thugs, guns and bombs, who want to kill you on sight.
Freeper hugs to help you thru your day!
Either that or the caption writer for AP is sharing with us how they would react to a Rorcshire test.......
#22..Amen!
Yes, the vast majority of American engineers and supervisors do their job well. If they did not, we would have many more accidents than we do. One of the great things about American workers is that they take responsibility instead of blindly following orders. I have worked in construction in several foreign countries and observed some foreign engineers unwilling to take responsibility if it means questioning one's superior and this has resulted in a higher rate of accidents. American engineers are the best; they aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
Not to mention buildings overseas which collapse under their own weight, etc.
I hate to be picky, but it does not look to me like the girder "fell", but more like it "sagged". Could be that the girder was not properly supported at mid-span or perhaps it failed somehow. Very strange accident.
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