Despite the fact i'm in astro dude's clan, i have to say this is 100% biased, and one sided story. Plant was attacked by astor during a ceasefire when crashers came, and didn't stop until a while after people were saying off! wars off! chick get off! and that part was cut from the vid. I was there so, i know what happened.
well thats "confirmed" deaths, there are still 20-60 cars underwater they cant even get to, and it's expected to rise dramatically. They can't move parts of the bridge to get to cars, so they can find out why it collapsed, everyone who's not out is dead now anyway, it's been two days.
there was a checkup in 2004, and they said it would have to be resurfacced in 2020, but other than that it was supposedly safe. It's wierd how a few seconds or something trivial like not being able to find something for 30 seconds or something can be the difference between life and death. By the way the bridge was built in 1967, so it's 40 years old, which isn't too old.
They still aren't sure if they were the cause. If not them what? The weather? Unlikely. you have a point. they were working on fixing potholes and repairing the conditon, atleast from what i've heard