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Seconds to Collapse: How Granville's Bridge Crushed Survivors Alive
Seconds to Collapse: How Granville's Bridge Crushed Survivors Alive
The morning a 570-tonne bridge collapsed on top of two crushed carriages, rescue crews lowered a portable generator only to have it flattened when the bridge moved again - the disaster kept happening while people were still alive. How did fifteen seconds, altered carriages and extra concrete turn a routine commute into Australia’s worst rail tragedy, and why did survivors die beneath a bridge that hadn’t finished falling?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure at Mount Victoria to the collapse under…
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