The Swedish Transport Administration is currently working to secure the beam and to remove all debris from the river.
- When this bridge section is secured, when it is safe, then we can work with it and also work under the bridge and with the things that are now in the water, says Peter Jonsson, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration.
The idea is to weld the beam to the existing bridge support on land to then be able to see what damage there is on both the part and the bridge, this work will start within the next few days.
- You want answers to the questions: "How big are the damages", "How long will it take", "What will it cost".
But at the moment we are just sitting and guessing, says Peter Jonsson.
He continues:
- Of course we had to change focus, to build a bridge when something like this happens will take longer than expected, unfortunately we can not currently say how much longer it will take.
We have had to shift our focus from completing the bridge to finding ways to work our way around this accident that has now happened.
"The consequences of a failure are fatal"
Before the accident, in early August, project manager Gerhard Barrestål said that they had entered a critical phase in the bridge construction, the launch:
“It is not an everyday launch.
It is a very large steel box that will be launched 103 meters across the river.
The consequences of a failure are fatal. "
And it was precisely in connection with the launch, or projection, of a bridge section that the bridge slipped off the anchorage and the support that held up the bronze nose, a so-called "Kingpin" came loose and was pulled down into the river, still hanging in the wires from the bridge.