when cranes go boom
Tim-berrrrrrr!
On Friday, November 10, 2006, crews were placing new girders at the North Nevada exit. A crane, while heavy with the load of a 140 ton girder, collapsed. The crane fell into the southbound lanes of I-25. Luckily, the crane made enough noise to alert everyone involved in the pending disaster, so there were no injuries. I-25 southbound was closed from 12:30am to 6:20am on this morning, and then had interminnent closures throughout the day while the girder was lifted again. This is the third crane accident in the COSMIX project.
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Approaching the accident site while headed southbound on 25.
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Our first glimpse of the accident scene.
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Closer still
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The destroyed crane is in the foreground; the crane in the background is the way they're supposed to look.
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It looks like the crane bent back on itself.
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A shot of the crane... errr.... what's left of the crane.
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Looking back on the destroyed crane.
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Approaching the accident site from northbound 25. There's supposed to be many more girders here!
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Looking down at the accident scene from the NB 25 temporary bridge over the North Nevada exit.
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Second pass of the scene headed southbound.
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Mopping up the mess
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Surveying the damage.
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