[budman_2001]

Sat May 15, 2:46 PM ET
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)

[Tall_Texan]

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.

[TeleStraightShooter]

I suspect if one was peruse through the AP style-book, one might find a suggestion to emphasize government activity when ever possible.

Either that or the caption writer for AP is sharing with us how they would react to a Rorcshire test.......

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

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.

[RoughDobermann]

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)

Not that it's important, but the accident took place at the intersection of E-470 and I-70, which is on the EAST side of town.