![]() Eventually, the bridge connections were completed in 1998, when the Lake Parkway ( Wisconsin Highway 794) opened between the bridge's southernmost exit, connecting the bridge between the Bay View neighborhood and downtown Milwaukee's southeastern tip. Prigge in a two part article on the bridges history for the Shepherd Express, pointed out that the film was actually shot two years after the bridge was opened in 1977, he identified the scenes as being filmed on another incomplete section of I-794. It was widely held that the bridge in its unfinished state was used as the site of a car chase scene in the movie The Blues Brothers, author Mathiew J. This halted completion of the connecting roadways and led to the Hoan Bridge being known as " The Bridge to Nowhere." Although construction on the bridge lasted briefly from 1970 until 1972, it did not open to traffic until 1977 due to the era's freeway revolts against the planned Milwaukee County freeway system. It was designed by the firm Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff and in 1975 won the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Long Span Bridge Award. Originally called the Harbor Bridge, it was renamed after Daniel Hoan, one of the longest serving mayors of Milwaukee. The Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is a tied-arch bridge that connects Interstate 794 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Lake Freeway across the Milwaukee River inlet. Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) It's really sad they had to lose it (their lives) that way." ![]() "He (the driver) went over the bridge, you just hear the screeching, the banging, an explosion," Reza said. Reza said she was coming up the bridge when the vehicle was suspect's vehicle was being pursued. He was going 80, 90 (miles per hour)," Mimi Reza stated. Police say the suspects appear to be three adult males, but their identities have not been released.Ī witness told Scripps Station TMJ4 News that the crash was "shocking." ![]() The Milwaukee Fire Department responded and the three occupants of the vehicle were pronounced dead. Officers began rendering aid to the three occupants of the vehicle. The vehicle then crashed through the safety fence and fell below the bridge and caught on fire. ![]() The pedestrian was transported to the hospital with a minor injury. Once the car crossed the sidewalk, an 18-year-old Milwaukee woman was hit by the vehicle. When officers attempted a traffic stop, they say the suspects fled recklessly and a police pursuit was initiated.Īfter nearly a minute, the suspect vehicle fled across the 16th Street Viaduct, crossed the center line, and started to leave the roadway, police said. Prior to the incident, police say officers saw occupants of a Toyota Avalon at 22nd and Mineral involved in a suspected drug deal. ![]() ( TMJ4) -Three people are dead after a police pursuit ended in a crash with the suspect vehicle going over a bridge and catching fire.Īccording to Milwaukee police, officers pursued a vehicle involved in drug dealing and reckless driving shortly before 6 p.m. ![]()
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