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Overloaded truck crushes bridge in NW China

（Xinhua）  13:44, February 11, 2013  

A bulldozer works to open an alternative pathway beside the crushed bridge on the No. 304 Provincial Highway, the Shuitao Village, Hongsibao District of Wuzhong City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2013. According to local highway authorities, an overloaded truck carrying the outsized casting, with a gross weight of 100 tons, crushed the bridge with design load of only 55 tons when the truck tried to pass over it. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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（Editor：WangXin、Chen Lidan）

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