Golden Gate Bridge partially reopens after big rig overturns - San Francisco Chronicle

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Jan. 14, 2023Updated: Jan. 14, 2023 8:42 p.m.

Crews enactment    the Golden Gate Bridge aft  a large  rig overturned.

Crews enactment the Golden Gate Bridge aft a large rig overturned.

Espinosa, Suzanne

The Golden Gate Bridge reopened aft a implicit closure Saturday nighttime pursuing a clang successful which a large rig overturned, according to an advisory from AlertSF.

Emergency crews arrived astatine the country astir 6:12 p.m. to respond to the overturned motortruck and postulation backed up into San Francisco and arsenic acold northbound arsenic Sausalito connected Highway 101. The motortruck flipped implicit during a precocious upwind advisory connected the bridge. The span was wholly reopened by 8:35 p.m.

It’s been rather the rather the evening for the bridge. About an hr and a fractional anterior to the overturning, a lightning onslaught deed a span operation astir 4:42 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Check retired the lightning onslaught which deed the Golden Gate Bridge earlier this evening astir 4:42 p.m. courtesy of the Mersea Webcam! Remember, erstwhile thunder roars - spell indoors! ⚡ #cawx pic.twitter.com/5JGIXgabyZ

— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) January 15, 2023

The shutdown of the span came connected a time of aggregate road and roadway closures owed to the rain, flooding and crashes connected slick roads.

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