{"id":10663,"date":"2019-10-11T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10663"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:20:39","slug":"deaths-reported-as-bridge-collapses-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10663","title":{"rendered":"Deaths Reported as Bridge Collapses in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people killed and\u00a0 two injured\u00a0 \u00a0in eastern\u00a0 China \u00a0after a highway overpass collapsed and crushed cars below it, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted online showed a large section of the bridge in Jiangsu province swaying before falling on top of moving vehicles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Three cars and two trucks fell from the bridge as it collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Three vehicles , including one that was parked and unoccupied , were crushed, and three people in the two other cars were killed, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation showed the collapse had been caused by an overloaded truck, the Wuxi city government said in a statement on Weibo.<\/p>\n<p>However, city and transport ministry officials are further investigating the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Construction and road accidents are not uncommon in China.\u00a0In some incidents, poor construction standards have also been blamed for the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people killed and\u00a0 two injured\u00a0 \u00a0in eastern\u00a0 China \u00a0after a highway overpass collapsed and crushed cars below it, according to local officials. Videos posted online showed a large section of the bridge in Jiangsu province swaying before falling on top of moving vehicles on Thursday night. Three cars and two trucks fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}