CBS 6 Orlando, FL: “What is obvious here was the protection system around the bridge pier,” said Dr. Hussam Mahmoud, a structural engineer with Colorado State University who specializes in load impacts on structures, including bridges. “The main pillars or columns are sitting on footings that are very wide, so that provides protection. So there’s a lot of (material) that if a collision happened, you’d have to crush all this concrete to get to the columns.”

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