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By h.b. - Jul 8, 2008 - 1:21 AM
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The scene of the accident in Mijas Costa - Photo EFE
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The injured were travelling in three cars on the A7 motorway below.
Six people, including a two year old child, were injured, two of them seriously when a pedestrian bridge collapsed over both carriageways of the A7 motorway at the 198 km point in Mijas Costa. The accident happened at 4,55 pm when the busy traffic below hit the fallen bridge. The two seriously hurt are two men who were trapped in their crushed car by the fallen bridge, a 47 year old who was driving the vehicle and a 30 year old who was a passenger. The four others to be injured were a family travelling in the car behind. All the injured were taken to the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella.
Witnesses say that a crane got hooked onto the bridge, causing it to collapse. There were no pedestrians on the bridge at the time.
The accident led to hold ups of 30 kms for a time, and complaints that the only other alternative route, the toll AP7 continued to charge for some time before tolls were finally lifted. The road itself was cleared and opened again for traffic at 1130 pm last night, after being closed for some six hours.
There are reports that another lorry hit the same bridge some months ago leading to speculation that the structure was damaged then.
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Tats
08 Jul 2008, 01:23
08 Jul 2008, 01:23
I have not long got home from being caught up in the trafic, it was very
badly organised to say the least it has taken us just under four hours to
reach our house just 20 minutes away !!!! We left furngirola in fact
Iceland just before 7.30...we hit the trafic going towards marbella just
after the castle...we finally made it to la cala (2 hours stuck)from there
the police were diverting everyone off the road, yes the A7 (N 340) was cut
off from la cala...yes the accident was in Calipso....so why cut the whole
main linking road off so far back ??ok so we went down the road that took
us to torrenueva pulled back out onto the A7 on route back home only to get
stuck again at Riviera opposite Max Beach where we were all diverted off up
into the hills....not even moving...finally after just under 2 hours we
reach where the toll roads starts...signs and police everywhere saying that
the toll was free.....no good to me i needed to get to Cabopino....by now i
have 2 screaming kids needed the bathrooms, food and drink, we managed to
get back down to the bottom of el zoco and took the strip road off and came
out in calahonda....back on main road watching the traffic that was
gridlocked coming from marbella going towards fuengirola...my point being
this accident happened at 16.55...I left fuengiorola at 19.30 why did the
police not divert everyone to the toll roads from there or at least advised
!!!! so annoying cause once you are on that road you are stuck you can not
get off....there are no emergency gaps in the roads to redivert trafic
back...it's horrendous and no i am not a turist i have lived here for over
25 years and always the same story...My thoughts are will the ingured and
pray that all will be we, and for the poor people who witnest this
accident, also this is the same bridge that came down i think about 4 years
ago......
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