If I’m the driver hauling the bottled water, there would be no way that I would attempt to pass an oversized load while still on the bridge. If I was the driver of the oversized load, I would have taken possession of the entire middle of the road for the entire length of the span, regardless of where the pilot car was. I drove buses in 1980s. I wouldn’t have passed that truck then, and today, I wouldn’t pass it in my 8’ wide motorhome. As it is now, I stay as far left in the left lane as possible while passing any truck. I think I could wait until we’re off a bridge like that, to pass.
      Also, I see that you included a short clip of Tony Dokoupil’s report on CBS about what to if you happen to drive into the water. That was an interesting report. I saw it when it came out. I’ll have to see if that’s available somewhere on YouTube.

I was actually about a half mile ahead of that truck and I can tell you that bridge was getting ready to fail the oversized load was just the catalyst. Crossing the bridge for days before the expansion joints were loose and making it more bumpy and louder than it was just the week prior

I remember that incident clearly.  I was on a job hauling material from  quarries south of Mount Vernon to a refinery job in Ferndale, WA.  It took well over an hour to get through the detour from College Way to George Hopper Rd, approximately a mile and a half total detour distance.

This is the second of your videos I've watched in less than a week. Both have good information on what happened. Both are full of pictured that have nothing to do with the incident or the incidents you're comparing to.

The holes in the Swiss cheese all lined up at the same time.

I remember years of driving that bridge and every time looking looking at those gussets and worrying about them and being glad that I wasn't driving a truck.

Bro, its Ska-jit but you keep alternating back and forth to Ska-git; stop.

I remember that, I lived on the skagit river in sedro wooley, when the wooden bridge collapsed during heavy rain and the river almost crested the dike, then they built this bridge, I was 3 or 4 yrs old then, lived right across the road from that dike and river.

So at 9 inches you know there are numbers that continue to 10inches and 11 inches. So you need to figure out there are 2 more inches than you can see on the faded out tape measure

Was driving through that bridge 2 hours earlier before the collapse. There are many bridges that have crowns that at highest at the center point and and arches are always lower. I never drive in the outer edges whe. Going under an arch

What good is a pilot car w/a magic height ball only seconds in front of the wide load? If the ball says NO GO, what is the wide load supposed to do? Stop short? Back up? He's got no time or space to avoid the too-low overhang. That's one of the dumbest "strategies" I've ever heard.

Lack of discipline is the root cause of most of our problems.

Why would a truck from ALBERTA CANADA going to Alaska via the Alaskan Canada Highway, drive down and cross that bridge twice? The Customs inspection is in Sumas, he could have just gone down the Birch Bay Lynden Road and got back on I-5 going north and gone through the truck crossing and off he would go.

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The United States government and state politicians are the only people to blame and just so y’all know the bridge is still not safe. It was engineered to carry two lanes of traffic not four.  No engineer signed off on this creation of two extra lanes cannot be found in any government documents

I-5 has many bridges in WA over 70 years old, and the Interstate bridges over the Columbia that are over 100. How much of the Interstates in the rest of the US are as outdated and unsafe?

The trunk driver should have been in the left lane.

0:11 That's not Mount Vernon Washington pal!

2:53 This report doesn't make sense. If the driver was crossing into the USA and passed under the X-ray arch, why would it be "again inspected by CBSA officials"? A southbound load would never be looked at by the Canadian customs people.

Im going to say two things happend here that are critical fail one was painters pole not being mounted to far right of bumper 2nd was the driver doing bottled water truck passing an oversize load on a girder bridge deck and creating a squeeze on the oversize load yea escort on phone bad driver but had the bottle truck not pulled the im in a huge hurry to get someplace and insisted on shaving 5 seconds off the trip there would have been no squeeze pushing oversize load to right. Bottom line is I say it was water truck passing the oversize load to the right. Was water driver an illegal immagrant? Did he read and understsnd English with proficiency? I say drivers in accedents need to have the immagration status in the news as well