Arizona highway buckles, pavement collapses
Arizona Department of Transportation says a 150-foot section of US 89 collapsed Wednesday
Published On: Feb 20 2013 03:54:21 PM EST
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this one must be worth at least a million.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says a 150-foot section of US 89 buckled Wednesday morning about 25 miles south of Page.
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At first officials believed the collapse was due to a "geologic event". But after investigation by geotechnical engineers, it was determined the collapse was due to a landslide.
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