Immediately Before
A number of people had noticed that the overpass was not in good shape:
- "People living near de la Concorde and Highway 19 told The Gazette they had noticed the overpass had begun to crumble in recent months"
- Carole Hackenbeck, less than a month before the collapse, noticed that there were "unusually large gaps and misaligned spacing in the deck-support structure underneath".
- "One witness told TVA television network that he noticed the road had sunk an inch or two when he travelled over the overpass minutes before the collapse, and he called emergency dispatchers".
- Also, "several motorists told LCN they had called police up to an hour before the collapse to report seeing fissures appearing in the overpass roadbed and chunks of concrete falling to the road below".
Read more about this topic: De La Concorde Overpass Collapse
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