GoPro Footage Captures the Horror of a Bridge Collapsing Underneath Your Feet

GoPro captures hikers surviving a bridge collapse.

Final Destination 5 brought our deep-seated fear of bridges collapsing to life. That fear was reawakened this week after a glass-bottomed bridge in China shattered. Now there’s this scary bridge collapse in New Zealand making for two too many bridge malfunction stories in one week, but the worst part is that this one was caught on camera with a GoPro, putting viewers in the driver’s seat of this horrifying experience.

The collapse happened on Sept. 3 when four French hikers, one of them identified as Adrien Whistle, who just uploaded to footage to YouTube, were crossing the Hopu Ruahine bridge in Hawkes Bay at the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk. A sign for the suspension bridge capacity read 10 people, so the hikers should’ve been good to go right? They were, until halfway through, according to one of the hiker’s’ firsthand account, when they heard a “thud” and then the bridge collapsed, throwing the hikers (except one who managed to latch on to the bridge) into the river below. It turns out one of the bridge’s cable dropped. No one was seriously injured despite falling 26 feet.

The bridge remains closed.

[via New Zealand Herald/Rolandades]

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