A portion of a highway bridge collapsed into the Skagit River north of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington on Thursday evening, sending vehicles and their passengers into the water.
Rescuers pulled out three people from the freezing water and sent them to hospital. Nobody is believed to have died in the accident that reportedly happened when an overloaded truck struck a steel beam of the bridge, local media reported.
Quoting law-enforcement sources, the Seattle Times reported that 150 yards of the northern side of the bridge fell 120 feet to the water, taking with it a truck, its travel trailer and a car.
Collapse of the bridge, built in 1955, caused traffic chaos between the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington.
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