South Lake Union streets, including Mercer, reopened after crane fell Saturday in Seattle
Mercer Street and other roads closed in South Lake Union over the weekend reopened before the Monday morning commute in the wake of a crane collapse there Saturday that killed four people and left four others injured.
A crane atop an under-construction Google building along Mercer Street toppled over mid afternoon, striking six cars along a street used by 60,000 cars daily. The crane was in the process of being dismantled.
Two of the dead were ironworkers inside the crane at the time of its collapse. Two others were motorists on the roadway below. All four had died before firefighters arrived at the scene Saturday afternoon.
Seattle Pacific University confirmed in a statement Sunday that one of those killed was Sarah Wong, a freshman who intended to study nursing and lived on campus.
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