![]() ![]() Thirteen others were injured, including nine foreign crewmen and the driver of an oil tanker truck that had driven across the bridge and almost reached the other side when it suddenly gave way. 1 last year, killing six foreign crewmen - three Filipinos and three Indonesians - who were working on two Taiwanese fishing vessels that were crushed. ![]() ![]() The report also pointed out that while the bridge was reinforced in 2017 and again in 2018, the last inspection was three years and seven months before the accident and only done visually, Yeh said. While main cables near the anchorages were protected by high-density polyethylene, there were no drain holes, making it easy to accumulate water therefore causing erosion, Yeh said. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE)(Central News Agency/Kyodo)īoard member Yeh Ming-shan told a press conference that each main cable of the bridge, completed in 1998, consisted of parallel steel wires arranged in strands to form a cylinder protected by a layer of zinc from salt corrosion. A steel arch bridge collapses in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan, killing six people, on Oct. ![]()
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