The Georgia Department of Transportation is partially responsible for a fire that caused a section of interstate to collapse last year in Atlanta, federal investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in the report that the department’s decision to store construction materials under the bridge increased the risk of fire, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The report cited what the NTSB says was the department’s “failure to assess the increased fire risk due to the presence of these combustible materials.”
The collapse on March 30, 2017, affected 350 feet in each direction of a busy section of Interstate 85 and further snarled Atlanta’s already notorious traffic for six weeks.
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