Falling 40-Ton Steel Girder Kills 3 in SUV
From Times Wire Reports
A 40-ton steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction site into morning traffic, crushing one vehicle and killing three people 10 miles west of Denver.
The 100-foot-long girder sagged across three lanes of Interstate 70, shearing off the top of an SUV that was carrying a man, a woman and a girl, killing them all.
The girder was put up Tuesday as crews were adding a lane to a bridge carrying Colorado 470 over I-70, said state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacy Stegman. Cause of the collapse is under investigation.
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