DETROIT (AP) — A pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a Detroit freeway after a trash truck struck the overpass early Friday, leaving the truck driver dead and snarling rush hour traffic, officials said.
Two other vehicles were struck by debris, but no one else was injured, Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw said at the scene.
"If this would have happened maybe an hour later it would have been a lot worse," he said.
The west side bridge is about two blocks from Cody High School. Reports of its collapse came into police about 6 a.m. They determined a boom on the truck was extended too high to go under the bridge. When the boom struck the bridge, it pulled the overpass down, Shaw said.
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