By Sunday morning, crews had cleared the crushed cars and crane debris from Mercer Street, a major thoroughfare that passes the accident site and connects to Interstate 5. Much of the equipment used for the cleanup was gone by late afternoon. Officials said Mercer Street may be reopened for the Monday evening commute.
And overhead, construction crews were once again taking apart the stricken crane, lowering sections that flatbed trucks hauled away to a storage lot.
King County officials have not released the names of the four people killed, but on Sunday, Seattle Pacific University, a Christian college a few miles north of downtown, said that one of them was Sarah Wong, a freshman who intended to major in nursing. She was in a car driving down Mercer Street that was struck by part of the falling crane.
“While we grieve the sudden and tragic loss of our precious student, we draw comfort from each other, our strong community of faith, and God’s presence with us in times of sorrow,” the school said in a statement.
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries is responsible for investigating the accident. Tim Church, a spokesman for the department, said that when he reached the scene late Saturday, “it looked like something had exploded.” Machinery was strewn across the street, he said, and the roofs of cars had been ripped open by rescue workers to free people inside.
Mr. Church said four companies would be involved in the investigation: GLY Construction, the general contractor on the building; Morrow Equipment, which owned the crane; Northwest Tower Crane Service, which was disassembling it; and Omega Rigging and Machinery Moving, whose mobile crane was being used to lower detached sections. “You can see there are a lot of people involved, and it was very complex,” he said.
GLY said in a statement that it was “heartbroken” by the accident, and that it and its relevant subcontractors are “cooperating fully with investigators and assisting the local authorities.”
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