A pedestrian bridge over DC-295, connecting Kenilworth Avenue and Polk Street in Northeast, collapsed late Wednesday morning, injuring five people.

Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Chris Geldart said in a press briefing Wednesday that a multi-vehicle collision around 11:52 a.m. pulled the bridge off its moorings. An investigation into the collision is still ongoing, Geldart said, but officials preliminary believe that a truck — which is partially beneath the collapsed bridge, leaking diesel fuel — may have collided with the bridge. The five people transported to the hospital with minor injuries were in vehicles involved in the crash.

The Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the crash, according to Geldart, and officials are inspecting other bridges that the truck may have passed under.

“The truck itself fits under the bridge, the back part of it may not have,” Geldart said.

DC-295 is closed in both directions with no access from the US-50 and New York Avenue split to the 695 interchange. The corridor isn’t expected to reopen until 10 p.m. on Thursday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, speaking at the press conference, said that the bridge was last inspected in February of this year and that officials had no structural concerns.

Geldart added that the latest inspection concluded that the moorings of the bridge were structurally sound.

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This post has been updated with information from D.C. officials, and to correctly reflect the name of the roadway DC-295.