Concrete slab breaks off bridge

A 5 x 20 metre concrete slab serving as siding of the bridge-like construction that serves Chotkova Street in the Prague city centre broke off on Sunday morning, requiring technicians to secure the section and test additional panels for safety. The slab broke off at around 6 AM. No one was hurt but guests were evacuated from two rooms at a nearby boutique hotel - the Hofmeister - as a precautionary measure. An additional side panel was found to be loose and had to be secured. Chotkova is a heavily used street winding up from the city's Malá strana quarter to Letná Park and Prague Castle, seeing traffic from both trams and motor vehicles. The concrete panel which collapsed was not a load-bearing part of the construction.

Author: Jan Velinger