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Swindled

99. The Skywalks (Hyatt Regency disaster)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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More than one hundred people are killed when two overhead walkways collapse in the lobby of a Kansas City hotel. Prelude: The failure of a much-needed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. –––-–---------------------------------------- BECOME A VALUEDLISTENER™ Spotify Apple Podcasts Patreon –––-–---------------------------------------- DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop WATCH: SwindledVideo.com –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram Twitter.com TikTok Facebook Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing

1:06.6

events which may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

1:12.0

It was Sunday morning around 3 a.m., when 18-year-old FIU freshman Alexis Dale was struck

1:19.6

and killed while using the crosswalk at Southwest Eight Street and a hundred and ninth avenue.

1:25.0

For many students crossing Eight Street is the main way they get to and from campus.

1:31.5

In 18-year-old information technology student at Florida International University in Miami

1:37.2

was struck by a car and killed the day before the fall semester began in 2017. Alexis

1:43.2

Dale was trying to cross the eight lanes of traffic on Southwest Eight Street that separates

1:48.1

the school from the off-campus student housing in suburban Sweetwater. For pedestrians it

1:53.1

was a notoriously dangerous stretch of road. 4,000 FIU students make that treacherous voyage

1:59.4

up to five times a day every day. Yeah, there were shuttles in the class but the weights

2:04.2

were long and the service stopped at sundown. Sometimes they had no choice but to risk

2:09.1

their lives at that crosswalk. This tragedy reminds us how precious and fragile life is

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