A piece of concrete broke off from an abutment connected to the Lake Avenue Bridge in Cleveland.
The bridge is owned and maintained by Norfolk Southern.
Niki Hudson, who lives in the neighborhood and is a member of the group “Friends of Lake Avenue Bridge,” told News 5 that she was standing with her dog in that exact spot where the concrete slab fell earlier Wednesday night.
Thursday morning, she noticed the damage and began photographing it with her phone.
“I was taking my kids to school, and, you know, I was turning off Desmond on to Lake Avenue, and immediately it caught my eye that there was all this debris on the sidewalk,” said Hudson. “You know, huge concrete chunks. And then I saw where it came from, you know, up on the abutment wall.”
Hudson told News 5 that her first thought was she hoped that nobody was hurt.
“Because I know if somebody had been walking past or walking their dog like I was, those chunks could easily have killed somebody. That’s how big they were,” said Hudson.