{"id":107528,"date":"2024-10-17T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mississippi-bridge-collapses-in-deadly-accident-at-demolition-site-officials\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:03:45","slug":"mississippi-bridge-collapses-in-deadly-accident-at-demolition-site-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mississippi-bridge-collapses-in-deadly-accident-at-demolition-site-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi bridge collapses in deadly accident at demolition site: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-16\/GettyImages-1291135403.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Royalty-free\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss.) &#8212; A Mississippi bridge set to be demolished collapsed in a deadly accident on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Department of Transportation confirmed there were fatalities, though it did not specify how many people died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We] extend our deepest condolences to the families who have lost loved ones,&#8221; the Mississippi Department of Transportation said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>An inspector with the Mississippi Department of Transportation who was at the worksite when the bridge collapsed was unharmed, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which spanned the Strong River in Simpson County on State Route 149, collapsed Wednesday afternoon, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge had been closed to traffic since Sept. 18 and was in the process of being demolished as part of a bridge replacement project, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The replacement project had been given an estimate of 12 to 18 months to complete, according to previous statements from the department.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royalty-free\/Getty Images (SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss.) &#8212; A Mississippi bridge set to be demolished collapsed in a deadly accident on Wednesday, officials said. The Mississippi Department of Transportation confirmed there were fatalities, though it did not specify how many people died. &#8220;[We] extend our deepest condolences to the families who have<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mississippi-bridge-collapses-in-deadly-accident-at-demolition-site-officials\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}