A worker working on a skyscraper was killed and three citizens were injured when a section of a crane placed on the building under construction collapsed Thursday in Florida.
“I was driving and I felt a squeeze, I looked up and saw the blue structure coming down, and I slammed on the brakes. “She tore the front of my Tesla off and all the airbags went off – and I’m very lucky to be alive,” Mark Cerezin, still shaken, told NBC Miami on Thursday.
Thursday around 4:30 p.m., the driver of the Tesla was preparing to cross the small New River bridge in Fort Lauderdale, when a section of a blue crane, above a building under construction, apparently detached to bounce off the front of his vehicle, before landing on the car in front of him.
The incident allegedly occurred when the construction team was in the process of “raising the crane” by adding sections to it, when a part came loose, taking one of the employees with it, they said. reported the Fort Lauderdale firefighters via press conference, according to the American media.
The worker would have succumbed to the fatal fall, while the crane would have remained in place on the building, said the first responders.
If by some miracle, Mark Cerezin would have emerged unscathed from the incident, two citizens would have required transport to a hospital center and were in stable condition, while a third would have been treated on the scene for minor injuries.
“I look out the window and I see a crane falling from the sky … And then boom, a loud, crashing noise, and it landed right on this car. It was like six cars in front of me, so I said to myself, ‘Oh, my God, that could have been me,’” breathed Tony Perez, who was coming home from work.
The metal structure was to be used in a 43-story construction project, consisting primarily of apartments for seniors, with space for a restaurant and retail on the first floor, according to NBC Miami.
It would have been the subject of several lawsuits, including one from the construction company which was concerned about the “extremely small site given the size of the project”, continued the American media, before the project was closed. gets the green light.
