New images from Alphen: bystanders come with a fright – nrc.nl

Domestic

New images yesterday and today have appeared on the internet showing again how lucky few bystanders have had during the fall of the two construction cranes in Alphen aan den Rijn, on Tuesday.

For example, a road worker:

Or the owner of a bar:

Settlement

It is a miracle that no casualties cases. A dog did not survive the blow. Since the cranes fell on a shopping street, a number of entrepreneurs are the victims. Today says property owner Natascha van Rijn in NRC:

The property can be regarded as lost. Is anything left of it. Workers are now looking at how the crane can be removed. Then the building will be demolished.

How does the settlement? Van Rijn is called by many insurance companies believe that they can file a claim for her. She gets the feeling that they are trying to cash in on the situation.

Yesterday, the construction companies involved announced that the people affected by the fallen cranes and their home or business may not receive a financial payment. For individuals, this is 2,000 euros and 5,000 companies.

Experts

The exact cause of the accident is waiting. The Dutch Safety Board, the Public Ministry, the Inspectorate for Social Affairs and Employment, they all work examine the results of which may still months in coming.

Meanwhile, all kinds of experts are trying already to give explanations on all aspects of such a huge construction project. Lifting water is a complicated job. Continuously calculating computers or a crane in the position in question is strong enough to lift the weight. With two taps is already difficult. How is the distribution of power? Safety expert Jos Schouten NRC today:

With each turning movement, at every moment that the boom on or extends, is a huge power game in motion

History

NRC editor Ingmar Vriesema today describes in NRC Handelsblad accurately the history of the renovation of the Juliana Bridge, the ‘eternal defects bridge. Construction began this spring and had to end his completed this month.

Irony of the accident was that the renovation of the must have had a solution built Juliana Bridge in 1955 for problems Alphen already plagues years. In November 2011 still said alderman Kees van Velzen (CDA) that his congregation had escaped disaster. Rust in the turning points of the bridge caused immediate danger of collapse

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