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		</div><p>A car plunged into the water and a lorry got stuck when a wooden bridge over a river in Norway collapsed on Monday.</p>
<p>The drivers of both vehicles were rescued and doing well, police said.</p>
<p>Police were alerted shortly after 7.30am (5.30am Irish time) that the bridge had collapsed as a lorry and a car were crossing over it.</p>
<p>The car plunged into the river while the lorry remained on the bridge in a nearly vertical position on a collapsed section that was raised at an angle out of the water.</p>
<p>A helicopter assisted the rescue operation and pulled out the lorry driver, police said. The driver of the car managed to get out of his vehicle by himself.</p>
<p>The nearly 150 metre long bridge connects the west bank of the Gudbrandsdalslaagen River and the village of Tretten.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_175151" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-175151" style="width: 789px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/FBC37C42-49F4-4508-A3BD-8C3FEC38AF1A.jpeg" alt="" width="789" height="594" class="size-full wp-image-175151" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-175151" class="wp-caption-text">A drone image of the collapsed Tretten bridge</figcaption></figure><br />
The bridge opened in 2012.</p>
<p>“It is completely catastrophic, completely unreal,” mayor Jon Halvor Midtmageli told the Dabgladet newspaper. “It is also a fairly new bridge.”</p>
<p>“It is completely destroyed, everything has fallen down,” he added.</p>
<p>The Norwegian Automobile Federation said the bridge was checked in 2021, raising concern about the safety of such bridges.</p>
<p>“We who travel on the roads must be able to trust that the bridges are safe to drive on,” the organisation’s spokeswoman Ingunn Handagard told the Norwegian news agency NTB.</p>
<p>The cause of the collapse was not immediately known.</p>
<p>The Norwegian Public Roads Administration said it wanted an independent investigation.</p>
<p>“It must be safe to drive on Norwegian roads. That is why it is important to get to the bottom of this case,” said the administration’s head, Ingrid Dahl Hovland.</p>
<p>Atle Formo, who lives by the Tretten bridge, said he heard “an intense crash”.</p>
<p>“The whole house was shaking. I was rolling up the blinds in the bedroom and looked right at a bridge laying in the river,” he told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.</p>
<p>A similar nearby bridge in Sjoa in the Gudbrand valley, also made of glued laminated timber, collapsed in 2016.</p>
<p>The driver of a lorry who was crossing the bridge at the time was slightly injured.</p>
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<p>Following that collapse, 11 similar bridges, including the one in Tretten, were temporarily closed by the government body that is in charge of Norway’s infrastructure.</p>
<p>The agency said in a report about the 2016 collapse that “the direct cause of the bridge collapse is a defective joint in the framework”.</p>
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