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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Obviously, a horrible accident. But I wonder to myself, when do the people that were able to walk away get their cars back?
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That is actually a question that has been asked more than a few times. Some of the cars are completely undamaged, they would not be "automatically totalled" if they can be recovered. That's not how the insurance industry operates.
I asked a State Patrol supervisor about that this AM at that site, he said that fetching them might not be as easy as it looks. He said that there is a chance, (however remote), that lifting the vehicles off might upset the balance of the wreckage of the bridge and make the rest of the work they are doing there worse or more dangerous. There are human remains in that mess, so recovering them is priority number one right now. It's like a miniature 9/11 site right now, just absolutely heartbreaking to see in person. It sucks.
