Truck knocks down Piraeus steel bridge

Truck knocks down Piraeus steel bridge

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drive- resume - lift - create- demolish - flatten- try - take - order - not make public - ignore- add- injure(x2)



A truck into a pedestrian bridge on a main Athenian road yesterday, the steel structure, two workers and hours of traffic delays.
The drive, whose name not public, the half-completed bridge on Petrou Ralli Avenue in Piraeus at around 5.20 a.m. when he to drive the truck under it. His vehicle was 4.5 meters high, while the bridge had a maximum clearance of 4 metres, public Works Ministry sources said, that the driver warning signs.
Two men on the construction of the bridge and to hospital with minor injuries. A prosecutor the arrest of the driver and the bridge’s chief constructor. The flow of traffic at around 1 p.m., after a crane the demolished bridge off the road.

Kathimerini, English version, 13-14/11/2004