w/ engineering today we can't build a f'n tunnel that won't fall down! this just pisses me off!
Boston Tunnel Connector Closed Following Fatal Collapse
One Woman Killed When Part Of Tunnel Ceiling Fell
POSTED: 7:03 am EDT July 11, 2006
UPDATED: 8:04 am EDT July 11, 2006
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Boston, Mass. -- A woman was killed when 3-ton concrete panels fell from the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel and crushed the car she was riding in late Monday night, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority officials said. The driver was not seriously injured.
A steel tieback that held the 40-foot ceiling section in place over Interstate 90 eastbound gave way, Authority Chairman Matthew Amorello said. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Photographs of the aftermath showed large slabs sloped down the tunnel wall and across a lane of the roadway.
"There was a snapping sound heard," Amorello said at an early-morning news conference Tuesday. "One of the tile panels from the roof released. It caused a series of panels to be released."
Amorello ordered both sides of the highway section closed for immediate inspections of any similar panels. He called in a team from the Federal Highway Administration to assist.
Cars traveling to the airport are being detoured to the Callahan Tunnel. Cars traveling from the airport can ride on the Ted Williams Tunnel before being detoured at South Boston.
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