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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does police get there so quickly to stop traffic? They just happened to be near?[/quote]

The ship radioed the harbor after the first power failure to let them know the ship might impact. There was a construction crew on the bridge working on potholes and the harbor control was able to get them to move trucks to either end to block traffic so traffic on the bridge, which was already light due to the hour, could be stopped. Police showed up after it happened.

Had this happened at 4pm, it would have been a very different story. [/quote]

Are you sure? The news stories are saying police blocked traffic. And the audio recordings seem to be from police scanners.[/quote]

Yes that is what I listened to as well.  The police were talking about workers on the bridge and contacting the foreman when the bridge collapsed.  It was all very quick from ..."stop traffic" to "bridge is down"  The police must have been right there.  I also read that the workers were on a break and most were in their cars (possibly the ones that went down but that is just my guess).[/quote]

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