Days before Florida bridge collapsed, engineer reported cracks

MIAMI, Fla.– Two days before a bridge crumbled in Miami, killing six people, an engineer for the company that designed it called a Florida Department of Transportation employee, warning of “some cracking.”
The state employee was out on assignment that day. The call from W. Denney Pate of FIGG Bridge Engineers was unanswered, and the voice mail he recorded unheard — until Friday.
In the voice mail, Pate said the cracking on the north end of the span should be repaired. How