Chunk of overpass falls on car in D.C.

Published April 5, 2007 4:00am ET



A concrete chunk of the Seventh Street Southwest overpass Wednesday fell onto a vehicle traveling on the highway below, holding up the morning rush-hour traffic for tens of thousands of commuters.

The vehicle’s windshield was cracked by the plunging rock, about the size of a deflated football, but the driver was not injured, according to officials with the D.C. Department of Transportation and Fire and Emergency Medical Services.

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