12/10/2020 - VN24 - Witten/Germany - [full salvage] Around noon, an accident occurred on the A43 freeway near Witten Herbede underneath the Wittener Straße bridge. An excavator (O&K MH4) transported on a flatbed trailer was loaded too high for the bridge passage. As a result, the adjustable boom hit the bridge structure and the entire excavator crashed onto the highway. The structure of the bridge was so badly damaged that a structural engineer initially had to declare it unstable. The bridge and the A43 freeway below had to be closed between Witten-Heven and Sprockhövel for the duration of the salvage and investigation. Currently, the Witten Herbede off-ramp and on-ramp in the direction of Wuppertal are closed. The excavator has been recovered by a towing company.
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