Lucky escape for driver of plummeting excavator in Ohio

July 21, 2015
Thankfully no workers were injured when an excavator plummeted onto a road during a bridge demolition in the US state of Ohio.

An amateur video captures the moment the bridge gave way, leaving a second excavator luckily in place on the other half of the bridge.

The incident occurs at the very start of the video clip, so viewers may have to ‘rewind’ several times to get the best picture of the excavator hitting the ground.

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