Bottle smashes newly opened Tower Bridge walkway

London: A £1 million glass walkway across one of Britain's most famous bridges was smashed by a beer bottle less than two weeks after the attraction opened, according to The Daily Mail.

Part of the top layer of Tower Bridge's transparent walkway was shattered 138ft above the River Thames in London.

Was in tower bridge walkway today, someone dropped a beer bottle; this happened pic.twitter.com/fYFju69XBS

— Peter Gordon (@the1gordo) November 21, 2014

The glass floor, which was unveiled on November 10, gives visitors an unusual perspective of traffic crossing the river and bridge lifts.

Chris Earlie, head of Tower Bridge, said: "A sacrificial layer of glass on the new West Walkway at Tower Bridge Exhibition shattered on Friday evening, when an empty beer bottle fell from a tray being carried by a member of the catering team during an event. The floor was immediately inspected and covered to protect guests from glass splinters.

"Tower Bridge Exhibition's engineering team attended the site on Saturday morning and the sacrificial glass panel was replaced on Sunday morning. The exhibition space remained open to the public as normal and no visitors were at risk.

"The new glass floor has four layers of glass with the sacrificial layer on top of that - this is installed so that it can be replaced if it is scratched or damaged."