North Seattle Thursday night, Interstate 5, a bridge collapsed into the water poured two vehicles, sparking a rescue boats and divers efforts, three injured people were pulled from the cold water.
Authorities say it appears the bridge failure, the safety issues raised by the aging span and cut off the main route between Seattle and Canada, with no deaths.
Northwest Washington Incident Management Team spokesman said: "Marcus Deyerin it," We do not think anyone who walks into the water. "At this point, we are optimistic."
A man and a woman reported in the Skagit Valley Hospital's emergency room, hospital spokesman Cary Ranten of non-life-threatening injuries in a stable condition. Another man was reported in Sedro-Woolley Joint General Hospital in stable condition, the hospital's CEO Greg Reid said. He said he did not know whether the man would be admitted.
Survivors Dan Silai and his wife driving his pickup bridge, he said in a "big puff of dust disappeared in front of them."
"I hit the brakes, we went to the bridge," Sly told reporters, from Skagit Valley Hospital, where he "saw the water close to ... you hold tight as you can."
Re-take the route along period of time, may be affected.
"I-5 corridor was completely disrupted, said:" The governor Jay Inslee, Thursday evening to the scene.
He said that work has already started to design detours, but state Department of Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson asking people to avoid the I-5 in the region in the next few days.
Washington State Trooper Mark Francis said, Skagit River Bridge as part of four-lane, about 7:00 collapsed
Jeremiah Thomas, volunteer firefighter, said he was driving around when he caught something out, his eyes on one side, and turned to look.
"Just off the bridge, it crashed through the water," he said. "It was surreal."
It is not known at the Skagit County about 60 miles north of Seattle, but the state patrol detectives and patrol officers commercial vehicle enforcement bureau is talking about what caused the collapse of the bridge Thursday evening a commercial truck driver's rig was thought to have struck the bridge.
"Emergence of commercial vehicles made contact bridge," Francis said. "Whether it is" cause of the crash, or made contact with the bridge is down ", will wash out, but now it appears that it hit the bridge."
Four-lane bridge is about 50 feet above the water. Deyerin said, it seems that the two vehicles - a car and a pickup Travel Trailers connection - fell into the river. He said the depth of about 15 feet, the vehicle may be put in the water portion of the bridge collapsed half visible.
Crowds of people lined the river watching the scene unfold.
"This is not something you see every day, said:" Jimmy O'Connor, who was driving parallel to another bridge collapsed two local pizza shop owner. "People have begun to crawl out of their cars."
He said he and his girlfriend are Burlington bridge about 400 yards away when they hear "bang."
"Then we looked over and saw the bridge and down in the water," he said.
He pulled over and saw three cars in the water, including camping trailer landed upside down, he said.
Bridge does not consider structural defects, but are classified as "functionally obsolete" - meaning of a class design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and a low clearance below, according to a database compiled by the Federal Highway Administration.
The bridge was built in 1955 and has sufficient Rating 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. This is far below the statewide average rating of 80, according to the Associated Press analysis of federal data, but the state has 759 bridges subsistence lower scores.
According to 2012 Skagit County Public Works Department's report, 42 counties 108 bridge is 50 years or older. The document said that eight bridge is over 70 years old, and two more than 80.
Washington was given a C at the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure transcripts and C-bridge when it came to the country of the organization said that more than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges are considered structural defects , functionally obsolete.
, Who led the state House Transportation Committee, Rep. Judy Clibborn said the bridge is not a congressman has been a hot topic.
"It was surprising, I-5 will have something like this happen," she said.
Clibborn said the collapse would call attention to the problems faced by the bridge - especially the old bridge connecting Vancouver and Portland, Oregon, Columbia River
 



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