Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Hours Before Biden Infrastructure Visit
The New York Times
At least 10 people sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the collapse, officials said.
PITTSBURGH — At least 10 people were injured after a bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh on Friday morning, hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to discuss infrastructure.
It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse, which happened at around 6:45 a.m. Officials said that none of the injuries were life threatening.
The 52-year-old bridge, which crosses a deep wooded ravine in Frick Park on a steel frame, is routinely crowded at morning and evening rush hours with traffic heading to and from the city’s eastern neighborhoods and inner suburbs. But at the time of the collapse, said Darryl Jones, the Pittsburgh fire chief, only three or four cars and a bus were on the bridge.
