At least three people were injured when a bridge on Interstate 5 in Washington state collapsed into the Skagit River at around 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening.<br />The bridge connects the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington and is the main corridor for vehicular traffic between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada.<br />According to KiroTV, a white semi-truck is believed to be the cause of the accident. The truck was carrying on its flatbed a square blue container estimated to be a foot or two wider than a typical semi-truck, and was a little bit taller.<br />State Department of Transportation spokesman Travis Phelps told KIRO 7 that something a little bit too tall and a little bit too wide potentially grazed some of the critical structure supports, which caused the bridge to collapse. <br />Investigators measured the truck before 10:00 p.m. trying to determine its dimensions.<br />The incident happened at about 7:00 p.m. local time.<br />According to the Seattle Times, at least two vehicles fell into the water during the accident.<br />All three people in the vehicles were rescued and taken to hospital for minor injuries.<br />According to the Seattle Times, "The bridge is classified as 'fracture critical,' meaning it lacks redundancy and one big structural failure could bring the whole thing down.<br /><br />FOR MORE TOMONEWS US, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsUS <br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/TomoNewsUS<br /><br />FOR FUNNY TAIWANESE ANIMATIONS, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAWorldEdition <br /><br />FOR FUNNY TAIWANESE ANIMATIONS IN ENGLISH, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAtv <br /><br />FOR TOMONEWS IN JAPANESE, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsJP <br /><br />FOR APPLE DAILY ENGLISH, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AppleDailyEnglish
