The accident happened in Pangasinan, the Philippines between the villages of Wawa and San Vicente on Thursday afternoon.
As you can see in the video footage below, two loaded lorries were driving on the bridge when the building suddenly collapsed under them. Luckily, the traffic was flowing slowly, so the vehicles behind the HGVs could stop and escape a possibly more severe tragedy.
The four people in the lorries were injured and taken to hospital. According to local media, none of them is in a life-threatening state.
Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao of the nearby Bayambang town said on Friday that the reason for the accident was that both of the lorries were overloaded.
As she said, the bridge’s capacity was 20 tons but the two HGVs carried a combined load of 40 to 50 tons.
Quiambao said the Department of Public Works and Highways and the provincial government will build a temporary pathway or footbridge while the damaged bridge is being fixed.
Photo credits @ Judgefloro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons