Driver Follows Outdated GPS Off Bridge, Wife Dies in 37-Foot Fall

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3. The first link just has a stock photo

This is the bridge (from a few years ago):



The Northwest Indiana Times web page has a video that shows the barricades he had to negotiate.

Incidentally, this was in East Chicago, Indiana. This is what happens to essential infrastructure under Republicans:

n 2009, it was closed after decades of heavy semi-trucks hauling steel coil out of the Indiana Harbor steel mills caused it to deteriorate. In 2010, the Indiana Department of Transportation condemned the bridge.

Then-Gov. Mitch Daniels promised to swiftly rebuild the bridge, which had served the Midwest's largest refinery and the biggest steelmaking complex in North America, and gave Chicago residents an easy route to visit casinos in East Chicago and Gary. But the state reneged after deciding a replacement bridge would be too costly.

Plans to build a privately financed toll bridge have dragged on for years. Construction of a new bridge over the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is supposed to begin this spring.