'Major structural collapse' at new bridge next to Barton

'Major structural collapse' at new bridge next to Barton Credit: Amy Welch

Reports are coming in of a major structural collapse at the construction site for a new road near the Barton Bridge.

A new lifting bridge is being constructed there to a new dual carriageway over the Manchester Ship Canal.

The lifting bridge is part of a £50m project to improve traffic flow around the area and includes new roundabout layouts at junctions 10 and 11 of the M60.

'Major structural collapse' at new bridge next to Barton Credit: MEN SYNDICATION

Four huge pillars have been built as part of the construction, and they were connected by a bridge - it is that bridge which appears to have collapsed.Emergency services - including paramedics - rushed to the scene.

Workers escaped injury after a new bridge next to the Barton Bridge on the M60 partially collapsed this morning.

The huge concrete platform, which is part of a new lifting bridge beside the River Irwell, fell around 60 feet to the ground.

Emergency services raced to the work site at Trafford Way, Trafford, just before 9.30am after concerns that someone could have been trapped underneath the structure.

But the North West Ambulance Service has confirmed nobody was injured and all contractors working on the site have been accounted for.

One man drives past every day and said there are always welders on the bridge. He said it was lucky nobody was hurt.