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GTPD is assisting with emergency response to a partial crane collapse at a construction site near 10th and W. Peachtree in Midtown. Area roads are closed. Avoid the area. Emergency crews are on scene. There is no threat to the Georgia Tech campus.
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Georgia Tech Police Department responded alongside Atlanta Police, Atlanta Fire Rescue Department, and EMS because the construction site is adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus on West Peachtree Street, and the building was designed specifically to house 752 student beds for Georgia Tech and Georgia State University students.
Counterweights dislodged from the crane during the malfunction and fell onto the parking deck below before the crane jib struck and collapsed the 9th and 10th floors of the partially built tower; the cascading nature of the failure was consistent with a catastrophic mechanical failure rather than wind or design overload.