A bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed early Friday, hours before President Biden was scheduled to drop into town to talk about infrastructure.
Pittsburgh Public Safety told the public to avoid the bridge, which carries vehicles along Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow Creek in Frick Park.
Three people were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and teams were deployed to ensure there were no victims trapped under the bridge, according to emergency officials.
The public safety team also tweeted a photo that showed a commuter bus tilted up at a sharp angle on one end of the collapsed bridge.
The timing of the incident is remarkable.
Mr. Biden is scheduled to arrive in Pittsburgh Friday to visit Carnegie Mellon University at Mill 19 in part to discuss new infrastructure funding from a bipartisan bill that passed last year.
The White House said he will deliver remarks “on strengthening the nation’s supply chains, revitalizing American manufacturing, creating good-paying, union jobs, and building a better America, including through the bipartisan infrastructure law.”
• Tom Howell Jr. can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.
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