Behind Wash. state bridge collapse: a driver talking on a cell phone
The driver of a vehicle hired to escort a truck carrying an oversize load was talking on her mobile phone at the time the truck struck an interstate highway bridge and caused it to collapse, sending two cars and a camper-trailer into a river.
That was just one of the causes cited by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in its investigation into the May 23, 2013 accident at the Skagit River near Mt. Vernon, Wash. All of the eight vehicle occupations were safely rescued from the river; none had serious injuries.