{"id":504375,"date":"2022-07-08T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504375"},"modified":"2022-07-08T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:58:56","slug":"trial-opens-in-deadly-collapse-of-italys-morandi-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trial-opens-in-deadly-collapse-of-italys-morandi-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial opens in deadly collapse of Italy&#8217;s Morandi Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-nine people went on trial on Thursday for the 2018 collapse of Genoa&#8217;s Morandi bridge, accused of manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 43 people.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants include former executives and experts of the company that manages many of Italy&#8217;s bridges and highways, as well as former officials of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.<\/p>\n<p>A huge section of the Morandi bridge broke off during a violent rainstorm on August 14, 2018, when highways were packed on the eve of Italy&#8217;s biggest summer holiday, sending cars plunging into the dry riverbed below.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have alleged the defendants knew the bridge, which was built in the 1960s, was at risk of collapsing and that corners were cut on maintenance to save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-nine people went on trial on Thursday for the 2018 collapse of Genoa&#8217;s Morandi bridge, accused of manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 43 people. The defendants include former executives and experts of the company that manages many of Italy&#8217;s bridges and highways, as well as former officials of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. A huge section of the Morandi bridge broke off during a violent rainstorm on August 14, 2018, when highways were packed on the eve of Italy&#8217;s biggest summer holiday, sending cars plunging into the dry riverbed below. Prosecutors have alleged the defendants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}