Thursday, August 9, 2007

Kayaker near bridge collapse

Just a quick note to the local (Minneapolis/St Paul) readers of this blog. The StarTribune just reported that the NTSB is looking for a kayaker that was spotted in the water at the time the bridge went down. The paddle community is fairly small so if you know of anyone that was in the St Anthony Falls area of the river at that time please forward this info. Here is the pertinent paragraph from the article:

"Martin said it’s important that anyone who was on the bridge at the time of the collapse and who has not been formally interviewed to contact the National Transportation Safety Board hotline. Authorities have also been told that there was a kayaker near the bridge at the time of the collapse, and they would like to talk to that person. The NTSB hotline number is 1-866-328-6347".

Here is the link to the entire article from the paper.

2 comments:

Kate Foley said...

Hello Dave--

You might get a follow-up email that the kayaker who witnessed the bridge collapse has made contact.

Your post may have alerted him or her, so thank you for helping.

Many thanks to the person who stepped forward, and to any who passed on the word so he or she would know to do so.

--Kate

DaveO said...

Glad to do my small part Kate. Thanks for putting the word out on this.