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Why The Mississippi River Bridge Collapsed

The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse, a tragic event in American infrastructure history, occurred on August 1, 2007, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The bridge, a vital artery connecting the ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

NTSB cites design flaw, storage of materials in Minneapolis bridge collapse

WASHINGTON -- Undersized steel plates and the stress of 287 tons of stockpiled construction material were singled out Thursday as reasons for last year's collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis ...
WGHP

Driving along … and the roadway vanishes beneath you. What’s it like to survive a bridge collapse?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. You’re driving along, and without warning, ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Steel truss spans, similar to one in Minneapolis collapse, found safe, along with 4 in Bay Area

Four Sonoma County steel truss bridges were inspected by state engineers as a precautionary measure after the collapse of a similar bridge in Minneapolis, and all were found to be safe, officials said ...
NJ.com

All of Atlantic County's 57 bridges have been inspected

All of Atlantic County's 57 bridges have been inspected in the last 10 months, Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson reported today on the Atlantic County government Web site. The report comes in ...