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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The wife of a Canadian trucker linked to a dramatic bridge collapse in Washington state says her husband had all the permits he needed and she doesn’t believe he is responsible for bringing the structure down.

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Cynthia Scott says she spoke with her husband, Bill Scott, right after he saw the Interstate 5 bridge crash into the Skagit River about 15 metres below.

“He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight,” she said Friday from the couple’s home on a rural property near Spruce Grove, Alta., just west of Edmonton. “I spoke to him seconds after it happened. He was just horrified.

“They’re saying in the news that he plowed into the (bridge) and I’m going, ‘No, he didn’t plow into anything.’ ”

The Washington State Patrol has confirmed that the truck hit a support girder on the bridge Thursday night. That sent part of the span thundering into the river below. Sgt. Kirk Rudeen said the collision appears to have led to the collapse, which took two vehicles with it.