Epic Rescue After Crane Tumbles On Sakonnet River Bridge

Traffic in Portsmouth and Tiverton became a nightmare today after a crane accident closed the Sakonnet Bridge.

The Sakonnet River Bridge has been reopened after a terrifying accident left two workers stranded in a bucket below the bridge. A second crane had to be brought in to extract the workers from under the bridge. A vehicle recovery operation was then conducted to straighten the crane and get it off the bridge.

Crane overturned on Rt 24 bridge two people still in the bucket pic.twitter.com/4xZvNbSj52

— Richard Petrin (@LCFDCAR1) August 29, 2016

Second crane in place pic.twitter.com/xgFFcUOzpC

— Richard Petrin (@LCFDCAR1) August 29, 2016

Workers have been removed from the bucket great job pic.twitter.com/2ZqXYaQHHL

— Richard Petrin (@LCFDCAR1) August 29, 2016

Sakonnet Bridge will remain closed additional 2 hours for vehicle recovery. pic.twitter.com/M3uzIluc7i

— Portsmouth Fire RI (@PortsmouthFD) August 29, 2016

Talk about a serious case of the Mondays. Fortunately, it appears that, aside from the sky-high blood pressure of Aquidneck Island motorists, everyone escaped unharmed.

-Tristan Pinnock, Blast Traffic Correspondent