Since when did PPOT become a news source as good as other corporate news product?
Well... I learned about this collapse this am from pelican.
I watched the live collapse of the bridge from links here.
I didn't see too many cars going back an forth at the time, but as a pelican I thought about inertia- a car moving at 50 mph or more forward with a sudden kinematic acceleration in a gravitational velocity hitting water at a high rate of wtf stopping flat on some cold water dime.
What would be the odds of not only surviving that impact, but negotiating a Tom Hanks castaway sinking plane of sinking car and debri to get back to the surface?
I saw that movie in theatres when it came out, I didn't enjoy it. I was simply sick to my stomach.
When I went to work this morning, I drove a bit relieved. In a worst case scenario, I might hit a deer. 
But then, it occurred, the lights on the bridge weren't (for the most part) moving. It was a construction zone. Then my thoughts went to a construction suit. Heavy duty. In the rescue squad we had to wear steel toed boots for safety. Did they?
Good God.
That wasn't swimwear.
Not an uplifting post, but, my heart goes out to them all.
Effin' awful. I hated that bridge on a good day.