CHELSEA, Mass. — Randy Andrews captured a car caught on the Chelsea Street bridge as it went up last Friday.
“This guy didn’t make it over the bridge,” he said in a video he posted on Facebook.
As he watched, he couldn’t believe his eyes. “I’ve never saw that before,” said Andrews.
Neither can people who use this bridge everyday. “I don’t understand how they put up the bridge,” a truck driver told us.
The two operators who raised the bridge are now out of a job. People who live nearby think that was the right move.
“I think they should be the guys that prevent that from happening because that can cause a really bad accident,” said Suzy Hernandez of Chelsea.
MassDot released this statement that says in part: “The bridge operation is contracted through a private vendor, Cora, and upon an internal review it was determined that policies and protocols were not followed. This led to Cora terminating two employees.”
Boston 25 reached out to Cora’s office in East Boston. The doors were locked and no one answered.
Back at the bridge, some say the operators are not the only ones to blame.
“Of course every time the bridge goes up everybody’s rushing trying to get to work and what not,” said David Ruiz who walks across this bridge everyday to work.
Ruiz says cars routinely sneak by crossing gates. “I wasn’t surprised, it happens once in a while.”
The two workers who were fired are supposed to do a visual inspection of the bridge before they raise, and that was not done according to transportation officials.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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