From ABC7 New York · · 1m 30s
A crane fell on a car in Brickell, and everyone lived
A piling rig toppled onto a Miami street Monday morning, and four people walked away with minor injuries.
In brief
A piling rig toppled onto a Miami street Monday morning, and four people walked away with minor injuries. Four people were hurt when a piling rig collapsed in Brickell, and the cause is still under investigation. Originally reported by ABC7 New York.
The crane came down
Just after 8 a.m. Monday, a crane at a construction site in Miami's Brickell neighborhood toppled onto a passing car and set it on fire. Four people were hospitalized.
She reversed out of the fire
A woman driving on the street beside the site watched the crane start to fall, threw the car in reverse and climbed out the back as it burned.
“To be able to see the crane falling, pull the car in reverse and pop out of the back while the car's on fire, really incredible”
Two workers in a box
The crane crushed two empty parked cars and landed on a storage container with two construction workers trapped inside.
Cutting through steel
Crews fought the car fire while a technical rescue team cut through the conex box at the same time. Both trapped workers were pulled out alive.
“It was a very complex scene with a fire that was occurring”
Four victims, minor injuries
The two trapped workers and the operator, who jumped clear as the rig tipped, went to a trauma center. The driver went to a different hospital. All had minor injuries.
“The fact that we had four victims, and they were all able to be extricated or self-extricate themselves with minor injuries is a remarkable day for them.”
Nobody knows why yet
The machine was a piling rig, built on a crane base but designed to drive support columns deep into the ground. Officials have not said what made it fall, and the collapse is under investigation.
The essence
Four people were hurt when a piling rig collapsed in Brickell, and the cause is still under investigation.
