Other over-height vehicles struck the Skagit River bridge before the collapse on Thursday, she noted.
Two other vehicles plunged into the Skagit River, but all three occupants escaped with only minor injuries.
Two patients were being transported from the scene of the bridge collapse to Skagit Valley Hospital in nearby Mt.
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However, the southbound vertical clearance on the Skagit River bridge is as little as 14 feet, 5 inches, state records show.
They settled well north of Seattle, on Samish Bay in the Skagit County town of Blanchard, just thirty miles from the Canadian border.
She was in stable condition, according to Skagit Valley Hospital.
"Their parents are saying you might as well wait for immigration reform, " said Josefina Beecher, a member of the board of the Skagit Immigrant Rights Council in Mount Vernon, Wash.
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In that category is the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River north of Seattle, which collapsed into the water days ago after officials say an oversized truck load clipped the steel truss.
Ed was in the school orchestra, the glee club, sang solos in the school operettas, played baseball and basketball (Skagit County champs of 1925), drove the school bus, and was president of the student body in his senior year.
Inspectors are working to find out whether the disintegration on Thursday of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canadian border, was a fluke or a sign of bigger problems.
"This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in Washington but around the country, " Hersman said after taking a boat ride on the Skagit River below the dramatic scene where a truck bumped against the steel framework, collapsing the bridge and sending two vehicles and three people falling into the chilly water.
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