by Matt Liponoga
5-24-2013
Well once again we depended on the government to provide us something safe, and once again they failed us. The bridge collapsed in Mount Vernon, Washington 60 miles north of Seattle at around 7PM Thursday evening.
Xavier Grospe, 62, who lives near the river, said he could see three cars with what appeared to be one person per vehicle. The vehicles were sitting still in the water, partially submerged and partly above the waterline, and the apparent drivers were sitting either on top of the vehicles or on the edge of open windows.
According to Fox News the bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data, but 759 bridges in the state have a lower sufficiency score.
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