Tuesday, February 11, 2014

On the Brink

Missing railings, Ponte del Mercato, Livorno
Last week a car crashed through part of the railings of the Ponte del Mercato and almost fell off, stopping on the brink. The usual and ubiquitous barriers have been deployed...

See also: Ponte del Mercato

10 comments:

Revrunner said...

Good grief! We'd have to close the bridge here in the States.

Michelle said...

Wow! What a place to crash.

Luis Gomez said...

Good thing it only crashed.

Randy said...

Close call.

cieldequimper said...

I hope they build something sturdier...

Dina said...

Thank goodness the driver could stop before falling off. The bridge looks even scarier now with just that frail railing.

Stefan Jansson said...

That can't have been much fun.

Jack said...

I agree with Revrunner. Over here, that temporary railing would be completely inadequate. The driver was lucky not to go over.

Traveling Hawk said...

Good for the driver that he stopped there. I like the big, yellow building, behind the bridge.

Halcyon said...

Interesting. Was the driver drunk or something? I can't imagine something like that happening under normal circumstances.