Bridge failures
This is a list of bridge failures including failures during construction. This list may be sorted by any field.
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Stirling
BridgeThe Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.-The main...
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|Beam and trestle over the
River ForthThe River Forth , long, is the major river draining the eastern part of the central belt of Scotland.The Forth rises in Loch Ard in the Trossachs, a mountainous area some west of Stirling...
|Overload by attackers during the Battle of Stirling Bridge
|Unknown, English forces defeated
|Bridge rendered unusable
|Collapse may have been assisted by defending forces.
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Rialto
BridgeThe Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line for the districts of San Marco and San Polo.- History :...
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VeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
|Venetian Republic
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|Wooden structure with central drawbridge.
|Overload by spectators during the wedding of the Marquess of Ferrara.
|Unknown
|Bridge total damage
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Broughton
Suspension
BridgeBroughton Suspension Bridge was a suspended-deck suspension bridge built in 1826 to span the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton, now in Greater Manchester, England. It was one of the first suspension bridges constructed in Europe. On 12 April 1831 the bridge collapsed, reportedly owing...
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Broughton, Greater ManchesterBroughton is an inner city area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Irwell and A56 road, in the northeastern part of the City of Salford, north-northwest of Manchester city centre and south of Prestwich. Broughton consists of Broughton Park, Higher...
|England
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|Suspension bridge over
River IrwellThe River Irwell is a long river which flows through the Irwell Valley in the counties of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in North West England. The river's source is at Irwell Springs on Deerplay Moor, approximately north of Bacup, in the parish of Cliviger, Lancashire...
|Bolt snapped due to
mechanical resonanceMechanical resonance is the tendency of a mechanical system to absorb more energy when the frequency of its oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration than it does at other frequencies...
caused by marching soldiers
|20 injured
|Collapsed at one end, bridge quickly rebuilt and strengthened
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Collapse due to faulty design. Caused "break step" rule to be issued to UK military.
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|Yarmouth
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Great YarmouthGreat Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a coastal town in Norfolk, England. It is at the mouth of the River Yare, east of Norwich.It has been a seaside resort since 1760, and is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea...
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Suspension bridgeA suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
|People had crowded onto the bridge to see a
circusA circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
clown go down the river in a barrel pulled by geese. The weight of people shifted as the barrel passed underneath, the suspension chains on the south side snapped and the bridge deck tipped over.
|79 people drowned, mainly children.
|Suspension chains snapped due to overload.
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|Dee bridge
|Chester
|England
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Cast ironCast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...
beam bridgeBeam bridges are the most simple of structural forms being supported by an abutment at each end of the deck. No moments are transferred through the support hence their structural type is known as simply supported....
over the
River DeeThe River Dee is a long river in the United Kingdom. It travels through Wales and England and also forms part of the border between the two countries....
|Overload by passenger train on faulty structure
|5 killed
|Bridge rendered unusable
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Collapse due to faulty design.
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Angers BridgeAngers Bridge, also called the Basse-Chaîne Bridge, was a suspension bridge over the Maine River in Angers, France. It was designed by Joseph Chaley and Bordillon, and built between 1836 and 1839...
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AngersAngers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
|France
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|Suspension bridge over
Maine RiverLa Maine is a river , a tributary of the Loire, 12 km long, in the Maine-et-Loire département in France....
|Wind and possibly
resonanceIn physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at a greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the system's resonant frequencies...
of soldiers led to collapse
|226 killed, unknown injured
|Bridge total damage
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Gasconade BridgeThe Gasconade Bridge train disaster was a rail accident at Gasconade, Missouri on November 1, 1855.At the time of the disaster, the Pacific Railroad was being built west from St. Louis toward the Pacific Ocean...
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Gasconade, MissouriGasconade is a city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, at the confluence of the Missouri and Gasconade Rivers. It was the first county seat, but the designation was moved in 1825 to Bartonville after flooding...
|United States
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|Wooden rail bridge
|Inaugural run of
Pacific RailroadThe Pacific Railroad was a railroad based in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was a predecessor of both the Missouri Pacific Railroad and St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend "from St...
conducted before bridge's temporary trestle work was replaced with permanent structure
|31 killed, hundreds injured
|Span from anchorage to first pier destroyed
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|Desjardins Canal bridge
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Desjardins CanalThe Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was built to give Dundas, Ontario, easier access to Lake Ontario and the Great Lakes system of North America...
, Ontario
|Canada
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|Rail bridge
|Mechanical force due to broken locomotive front axle
|59 killed
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|Sauquoit Creek
|3 miles from
Utica, New YorkUtica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....
|United States
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|Railroad trestle
|Weight (two trains on the same trestle)
|9 killed, 55 injured
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|Springbrook bridge
|Between
MishawakaMishawaka is a city on the St. Joseph River and a Twin city of South Bend in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States. The population was 48,252 as of the 2010 Census...
and
South Bend, IndianaThe city of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total of 101,168 residents; its Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 316,663...
|United States
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|Railroad embankment bridge
|Washout
|41 killed (some accounts of 60 to 70)
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|Known as the Great Mishawaka Train Wreck or
South Bend train wreckThe South Bend Train Wreck occurred on June 27, 1859 between Mishawaka and South Bend in Indiana on the Michigan Southern Railroad killing 42 people and injuring 50 more....
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|Wootton bridge collapse
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WoottonLeek Wootton is a village in Warwickshire, England, roughly one mile from Kenilworth and two miles from Warwick. It lies in the triangle created by Kenilworth, Warwick and Leamington Spa.-Geography:...
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Cast ironCast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...
rail bridge
|cast iron beams cracked and failed
|2 killed
|total damage to floor
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flawed design using unreliable cast iron, failed from a repair
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Bull bridge accidentThe Bull bridge accident was a failure of a cast-iron bridge at Bullbridge, near Ambergate in Derbyshire on 26 September 1860. As a goods train was passing over the bridge at Bullbridge, the structure failed suddenly, causing the derailment of the majority of the wagons...
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AmbergateAmbergate is a village in Derbyshire, England, where the River Amber joins the River Derwent.Until the early nineteenth century it was known as Toadmoor, with no more than a few artisans' cottages. The southerly half of the village was still shown as such on the Ordnance Survey's maps.It is about ...
|England
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Cast ironCast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...
rail bridge
|cast iron beam cracked and failed
|0 killed 0 injured
|total collapse of bridge
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bridge collapsed while freight train was on it; engine had passed bridge; rear cars had not yet gone onto it; train moving slowly due to fog and darkness
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Platte Bridge Railroad TragedyThe Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy was a bushwhacker attack on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad during the American Civil War on September 3, 1861, in which the train derailed on a bridge over the Platte River east of St. Joseph, Missouri, killing between 17 and 20 and injuring 100...
|St. Joseph, Missouri
|United States
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|Sabotage by Confederate partisans during US Civil War.
|17-20 killed, 100 injured
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Chunky Creek Train WreckThe Chunky Creek Train Wreck of 1863 happened during the American Civil War near the town of Hickory, Mississippi on the Chunky River. On February 19, 1863 the train Mississippi Southern left the Meridian, Mississippi depot at 3:00 am to transport Confederate soldiers and some civilians to the...
|near
Hickory, MississippiHickory is a town in Newton County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 499 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Andrew Jackson, nicknamed "Old Hickory," who passed through the area on his way to fight the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.-Geography:Hickory is located...
|United States
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|Winter flood caused a debris build-up which shifted the bridge trestle.
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train bridgeWood River Junction, Rhode Island is a small village located in the town of Richmond. It is home to the Chariho school district's main campus and is otherwise largely turf farms. The village is the site of the former Wood River Branch Railroad Station. The Wood River Branch of the New York, New...
|Wood River Junction
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|Washaway
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|Portage Bridge
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Portageville, New YorkPortageville is a hamlet located in the town of Genesee Falls in Wyoming County, New York, United States. Its name derives from the Native American canoists who would withdraw their craft from the river to avoid going over three waterfalls in the Genesee River gorge...
|United States
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|Wooden
beam bridgeBeam bridges are the most simple of structural forms being supported by an abutment at each end of the deck. No moments are transferred through the support hence their structural type is known as simply supported....
over the
Genesee RiverThe Genesee River is a North American river flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York. The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides hydroelectric power for downtown Rochester....
|Fire
|0 killed 0 injured
|Bridge was a total loss
|Fire destroyed all but the concrete abutments
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|bridge
|between
ValparaisoValparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region...
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SantiagoSantiago is the capital city of Chile. Santiago may also refer to:*Santiago *Santiago , a Spanish given name*Santiago!, a shortened form of the Reconquista battle cry "Santiago y cierra, España"...
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|Collapsed beneath the overnight train
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Ashtabula River Railroad DisasterThe Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster was a train disaster caused by bridge failure...
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Ashtabula, OhioAs of the census of 2000, there were 20,962 people, 8,435 households, and 5,423 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,775.9 people per square mile . There were 9,151 housing units at an average density of 1,211.8 per square mile...
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Wrought ironthumb|The [[Eiffel tower]] is constructed from [[puddle iron]], a form of wrought ironWrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon...
truss bridgeA truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges...
|Possible fatigue failure of cast iron elements
|92 killed, 64 injured
|Bridge total damage
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Tay Rail BridgeThe Tay Bridge is a railway bridge approximately two and a quarter miles long that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife ....
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DundeeDundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
|Scotland
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|Continuous girder bridge, wrought iron framework on cast iron columns, railway bridge
|Faulty design, construction and maintenance, collapsed because of structural deterioration and wind load exceeding estimate
|75 killed (60 known dead), no survivors
|Bridge unusable, girders partly reused, train damaged
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Locomotive was saved from the Tay and was still in use 19 years later known as "The Diver". The disaster was immortalized in a
poemThe Tay Bridge Disaster is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history...
by "Scotland's worst poet", William McGonagall
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Inverythan rail accidentThe Inverythan rail accident occurred when a faulty girder collapsed on a 39 ft by 15 ft single-track railway underbridge between Auchterless and Fyvie...
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AberdeenshireAberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.The present day Aberdeenshire council area does not include the City of Aberdeen, now a separate council area, from which its name derives. Together, the modern council area and the city formed historic...
|Scotland
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|Cast iron girder rail bridge
|Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse as train was passing over
|5 killed, 17 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
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Board of Trade issued warning about similar under-bridges.
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CamberwellCamberwell is a district of south London, England, and forms part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is a built-up inner city district located southeast of Charing Cross. To the west it has a boundary with the London Borough of Lambeth.-Toponymy:...
road accident
|London
|England
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|Cast iron trough girder bridge over railway
|Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse of four girders
|0 killed, 1 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
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Bussey bridgeThe Forest Hills Disaster was a railroad bridge accident that occurred on March 14, 1887, in the Roslindale section of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, at that time a separate town from the City of Boston.A morning commuter train, inbound to Boston, was passing over the "Bussey Bridge", a Howe truss,...
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BostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
|United States
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|Iron railroad bridge collapses under train
|poor construction
|30 killed, 40 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
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Norwood junction rail accidentThe Norwood Junction railway crash occurred on 1 May 1891, when a cast iron under-bridge some 60 yards north east of Norwood Junction railway station fractured under an express train from Brighton to London in southern England....
|London
|England
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|Cast iron girder fails under passing train
|Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse
|0 killed, 1 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
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Munchenstein rail disasterThe Munchenstein rail disaster on 14 June 1891 was historically the worst railway accident ever to affect Switzerland. A crowded passenger train fell through a girder bridge, killing over seventy people and injuring many more...
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MunchensteinMünchenstein is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.-Historical records:Münchenstein is first mentioned in 1196 as Kekingen. In 1270 it was mentioned as Geckingen and in 1279 as Munchenstein.* 1259: The hamlet and the mill, between "Neue...
|Switzerland
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wrought ironthumb|The [[Eiffel tower]] is constructed from [[puddle iron]], a form of wrought ironWrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon...
truss
|train falls through centre of bridge
|71 killed, 171 injured
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Point Ellice BridgeOn May 26, 1896 in Victoria, British Columbia, a streetcar crowded with 143 holidaymakers on their way to attend celebrations of Queen Victoria’s birthday, crashed through Point Ellice Bridge into the Upper Harbour. 55 men, women and children were killed in the accident, making this one of the...
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Victoria, British ColumbiaVictoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
|Canada
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|overloaded tram car collapses central span
|47/53/50—60 killed (reports vary)
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Eden train wreckThe Eden train wreck of August 7, 1904, occurred when the No. 11 Missouri Pacific Flyer from Denver, Colorado to St Louis, Missouri crossed the Dry Creek arroyo bridge near Eden Station, 8 miles north of Pueblo, Colorado...
|Eden, Colorado
|United States
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|Wooden railway bridge
|Collapsed because of a sudden washout
|111 killed, unknown injured
|Bridge completely destroyed
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Egyptian BridgeEgyptian Bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia, carries Lermontov Avenue over the Fontanka River.The one-span suspension bridge that it replaced was of historical interest as a monument to early 19th-century Egyptomania. It was constructed in 1825-1826 based on designs by two civil engineers, Von...
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Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
|Russian Empire
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|Stone suspension bridge
|Disputed
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
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|Cimarron River rail crossing
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DoverDover is a town in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 367 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dover is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
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Oklahoma TerritoryThe Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma.-Organization:Oklahoma Territory's...
|United States
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|Wooden railroad trestle
|Washed out under pressure from debris during high water
|4-100+ killed
|Entire span lost; rebuilt
|Bridge was intended as temporary, but construction of a permanent replacement had been delayed by the railroad for financial reasons. Number of deaths is uncertain; estimates range from 4 to over 100.
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Quebec Bridgeright|thumb|Lifting the centre span in place was considered to be a major engineering achievement. Photo caption from [[Popular Mechanics]] Magazine, December 1917...
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Quebec CityQuebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
|Canada
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|Cantilever bridge, steel framework, railway bridge
|Collapsed during construction: design error, bridge unable to support own weight
|75 killed, 11 injured
|Bridge completely destroyed.
|Redesigned, and rebuilding continued through the 2nd partial collapse in 1916 (below).
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|Romanov Bridge
|now
ZelenodolskZelenodolsk may refer to:*Zelenodolsk, Russia, a city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia*Zelenodolsk, Ukraine, a town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine...
|Russian Empire
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|Railway bridge
|Collapsed during construction: ice slip cut of the scaffold
|13 confirmed killed, ~200 missing
|Scaffold with workers had fallen on the ice and drown
|Bridge was completed later
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Quebec Bridgeright|thumb|Lifting the centre span in place was considered to be a major engineering achievement. Photo caption from [[Popular Mechanics]] Magazine, December 1917...
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Quebec CityQuebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
|Canada
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|Cantilever bridge, steel framework, railway bridge
|Central span slipped whilst being hoisted in place due to contractor error
|11 killed, unknown injured
|Central span dropped into the river, where it still lies today
|Rebuilt and opened in December 1919 for rail traffic, after almost two decades of construction. It is still the longest cantilevered bridge span in the world and is considered a major engineering feat.
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|Otsu
|Japan
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|Typhoon
|11 killed, 216 injured
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|Swan River railroad bridge
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FremantleFreemantle is a suburb of Southampton in England.Fremantle or Freemantle may also refer to:- Places :* Fremantle, the port city to the capital Perth, Western Australia...
|Australia
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|Flood
|? killed, ? injured
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|Proposed replacement by Combined Bridge,
road and rail.
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|Appomatox River Drawbridge
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Hopewell, VirginiaHopewell is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 22,591 at the 2010 Census . It is in Tri-Cities area of the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area...
|United States
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|Bus drove across the drawbridge when it was open.
|14 killed
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Kasai RiverThe Kasai River is a tributary of the Congo River, located in central Africa. The river begins in Angola and serves as the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , then flows into the DRC, where it joins the Congo northeast of Kinshasa. The Kasai's tributaries include the...
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KasaiThe Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental. It shares its name with the Kasai River....
|Belgian Congo
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|Railway bridge
|While under construction.
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|Began in 1935; Construction never resumed.
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Upper Steel Arch Bridge (also known as Honeymoon Bridge and Falls View Bridge)
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Niagara Falls, NYNiagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario , both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they...
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Niagara Falls, ONNiagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...
|United States – Canada
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|Steel arch road bridge
|Ice jam in gorge pushed bridge off foundations
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Bridge completely destroyed
|Replaced in 1941 by the
Rainbow BridgeThe Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls is an international steel arch bridge across the Niagara River gorge, and is a world-famous tourist site. It connects the cities of Niagara Falls, New York, United States , and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada .-Construction:The Rainbow Bridge was built near the...
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Sandö BridgeThe Sandö Bridge is a concrete arch bridge crossing the Ångermanälven river in the Kramfors municipality in the province of Ångermanland in northern Sweden...
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KramforsKramfors is a locality and the seat of Kramfors Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 6,235 inhabitants in 2005.Geographically the town is situated on the western shore of the Ångerman River. This river was the reason that Kramfors was founded, because in the 19th century it was a...
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Ångermanland' is a historical province or landskap in the north of Sweden. It borders to Medelpad, Jämtland, Lapland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. The name "Ångermanland" comes from the Old Norse "anger", which means "deep fjord" and refers to the deep mouth of the river Ångermanälven...
|Sweden
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|Concrete arch bridge
|Collapsed during construction
|18 killed
|Complete loss of the main span
|Did not receive much media attention as the Second World War began the next day. The bridge was finished in 1943 as the longest concrete arch bridge in the world until 1964.
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Tacoma Narrows BridgeThe 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the first incarnation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed...
(Galloping Gertie)
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Tacoma, WashingtonTacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
|United States
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|Road bridge, cable suspension with plate girder deck
|Aerodynamically poor design resulted in aeroelastic flutter
|0 killed, 0 injured (1 dog killed)
|Bridge completely destroyed, no person killed, but one dog killed and three vehicles lost.
|Became known as "Galloping Gertie", in the first 4 months after opening up until its collapse under aeroelastic flutter. Since that time all new bridges have been modelled in wind tunnels. Rebuilt in 1950; parallel span opened in 2007.
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Theodor Heuss BridgeThe Theodor-Heuss-Rhine River Bridge also known as the Autobahnbrücke Frankenthal is a bridge that spans the Rhine River along Autobahn 6 and connects the regions of Rhineland-Palatinate with Baden-Wuerttemberg...
|Ludwigshafen
|Germany
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|Bridge of concrete, Motorway bridge
|Collapsed during construction
|Unknown
|Bridge totally destroyed
|Resulted in delay in completion of the motorway crossing of the Rhine until 1953
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Chesapeake City BridgeThe Chesapeake City Bridge carries Maryland Route 213 across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal in Chesapeake City, Maryland. There are two undivided traffic lanes and one sidewalk on the east side of the bridge. It was built in 1949 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide a high-level canal...
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Chesapeake City, MDChesapeake City is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 787 at the 2000 census.The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia , but the name was changed in 1839 when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built...
|United States
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|Road bridge, vertical lift drawbridge
|Tanker ship Franz Klasen rammed the drawbridge supports, causing collapse
|Unknown
|Central span completely destroyed
|Bridge replaced by high-level tied-arch bridge in 1949
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Ludendorff BridgeThe Ludendorff Bridge was a railway bridge across the River Rhine in Germany, connecting the villages of Remagen and Erpel between two ridge lines of hills flanking the river...
(often called The bridge at Remagen)
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RemagenRemagen is a town in Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one hour drive from Cologne , just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the River Rhine. There is a ferry across the Rhine from Remagen every 10–15 minutes in the summer...
|Germany
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|Truss railroad and pedestrian bridge
|Collapse due to previous battle damage incurred 7 March 1945
|28 U.S. soldiers killed
|Total destruction
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Capture of intact bridge offered significant short term tactical advantage to Allied forces. Collapse was not strategically significant due to placement of parallel floating bridges during the previous week
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John P. Grace BridgeThe John P. Grace Memorial Bridge, or the Cooper River Bridge as it was familiarly known, was a cantilever bridge that crossed the Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened on August 8, 1929 and was built by the Cooper River Bridge Company. Shortridge Hardesty of Waddell & Hardesty,...
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Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
|United States
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|Steel
cantileverA cantilever is a beam anchored at only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear stress. Cantilever construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing. Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs.This is in...
truss automobile bridge
|Three spans collapsed due to collision with the freighter Nicaragua Victory
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|Three collapsed spans 240 feet (73.2 m) were replaced and stood until 2005 when the bridge was closed following the opening of the
Arthur Ravenel BridgeThe Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, also known as the New Cooper River Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two obsolete...
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|Inotani wire bridge
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Toyamais the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, about 200 km north of the city of Nagoya and 300 km northwest of Tokyo....
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|29 killed
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|Construction of bridge and cause of collapse are unclear from text provided
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|Duplessis bridge collapse
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Trois-RivièresTrois-Rivières means three rivers in French and may refer to:in Canada*Trois-Rivières, the largest city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada*Circuit Trois-Rivières, a racetrack in Trois-Rivières, Quebec...
-Cap-de-la-Madeleine,
QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
|Canada
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|Steel bridge
|Structural failure
|4 killed
|Total destruction
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Footbridge at Harrow & Wealdstone stationThe Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a major railway disaster and collision on the British railway system on 8 October 1952.The accident took place from central London...
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WealdstoneWealdstone is a largely working-class and recent immigrant district in the London Borough of Harrow, north west London.-History and name:The eponymous Weald Stone is a sarsen stone, formerly marking the boundary between the parish of Harrow and Harrow Weald...
|England
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|Pedestrian footbridge
|Struck by train(s) during accident
|112 killed, 340 injured
|Total destruction
|It is not recorded how many casualties were due to the bridge collapse
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Tangiwai railway bridgeThe Tangiwai disaster on 24 December 1953 was the worst rail accident in New Zealand history. An 11-carriage overnight express from Wellington to Auckland fell into the Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, ten kilometres west of Waiouru. The bridge carrying the North Island Main Trunk Railway over the...
|Tangiwai
|New Zealand
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|Railway bridge
|Damaged by
laharA lahar is a type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris, and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley. The term is a shortened version of "berlahar" which originated in the Javanese language of...
minutes before passenger train passed over it.
|151 killed. New Zealand's worst train disaster.
|Bridge destroyed
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Rail bridge near St Johns stationThe Lewisham rail crash on the British railway system occurred on 4 December 1957 just outside St Johns railway station in Lewisham, south London...
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LewishamLewisham is a district in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is situated south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...
, South London
|England
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|Railway bridge
|Two trains collided and smashed into supports, collapsing part of bridge onto the wreckage
|90 killed, 173 injured
|Bridge destroyed
|Unknown how many deaths/injuries specifically due to bridge collapse, since its effect was to worsen the train wreck
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|Temporary footbridge
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HavanaHavana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
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|Temporary footbridge
|Bridge struck by an out-of-control
FerrariFerrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...
sports-racing car, driven by Armando Garcia Cifuentes, which then ploughed into trackside spectators during the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix
|7 killed, 40+ injured
|Bridge destroyed
|Unknown how many deaths/injuries specifically due to bridge collapse
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Second Narrows Bridge (Now known as Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing)The Second Narrows Bridge is a vertical lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. As the name suggests, it is located at the second narrowing of the Burrard Inlet....
|Vancouver, B.C.
|Canada
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|Steel truss cantilever
|Collapsed during construction due to miscalculation of weight bearing capacity of a temporary arm.
|19 killed, 79 injured
|Rebuilt
|8 additional deaths during the course of construction
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Severn Railway BridgeThe Severn Railway Bridge was a crossing across the River Severn between Sharpness and Lydney, Gloucestershire. It was badly damaged in an accident involving river barges in 1960 and demolished in 1970.-Construction:...
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GloucestershireGloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
|England
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|Cast iron
|Two of 22 spans collapsed after two petrol barges collided with one of the support columns in thick fog. A third span collapsed 5 months later.
|5 killed
|Demolished 1967-1970
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King Street bridgeThe King Street Bridge takes King Street over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge continues south as an elevated viaduct, with the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex built around it in later years.-History:...
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MelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
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|One span collapsed under the weight of a 47 LT
semi-trailerA semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. A large proportion of its weight is supported by a road tractor, a detachable front axle assembly known as a dolly, or the tail of another trailer...
due to brittle fracture on a very cold winter day
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General Rafael Urdaneta BridgeThe General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge is located at the outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela. The bridge connects Maracaibo with much of the rest of the country...
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MaracaiboMaracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...
|Venezuela
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|Road bridge
|Ship collision
|7 killed
|2 section collapsed
|Currently in operation
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|Kansas Avenue Bridge
| Topeka, Kansas
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| Kansas Avenue Melan Bridge for traffic between downtown and North Topeka
| Structural deterioration
| Killed a Topeka man
| Single span collapse
| Suddenly collapsed about 5:30 p.m. on 2 July 1965, killing a Topeka man.
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Heron Road BridgeThe Heron Road Bridge is a bridge in Ottawa Canada. It connects Baseline Road and Heron Road passing over both the Rideau River and the Rideau Canal just south of Carleton University. The bridge was built in 1966, and its construction saw one of the worst accidents in Ottawa history...
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OttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
|Canada
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|Concrete road bridge
|Use of green lumber and the lack of diagonal bracing on the wooden support forms during concrete pour.
|9 killed
|Rebuilt.
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European route E313The European route E 313 is a road in Europe and a part of the United Nations International E-road network. Approximately long, it connects the Belgian port city of Antwerp to Liège, the commercial and industrial centre of Wallonia...
(a.k.a. King Baudoin motorway/Boudewijnsnelweg) Bridge
|Viersel
|Belgium
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|Concrete road bridge over Nete Canal (Netekanaal)
|Collapse due to faulty design: the foundation of the piers was not deep enough.
|2 killed, 17 injured
|Rebuilt.
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|Heiligenstedten Bascule Bridge
|Heiligenstedten
|Germany
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|Road bridge
|Ship collision
|0 killed
|Bridge Rebuilt
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Silver BridgeThe Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967, killing 46 people. The terms Silver Bridge or Silverbridge may also refer to:* Silver Memorial Bridge, the replacement for the above bridge, opened in 1969....
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Point Pleasant, West VirginiaPoint Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census...
and Kanauga, Ohio
|United States
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|Road bridge, chain link suspension
|Material fault and
corrosionCorrosion is the disintegration of an engineered material into its constituent atoms due to chemical reactions with its surroundings. In the most common use of the word, this means electrochemical oxidation of metals in reaction with an oxidant such as oxygen...
|46 killed, 9 injured
|Bridge and 37 vehicles destroyed
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Inspired the book Mothman Prophecies and
The Mothman Prophecies (film)The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 psychological horror film directed by Mark Pellington, based on the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean author John Keel. The screenplay was written by Richard Hatem...
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Queen Juliana BridgeQueen Juliana Bridge is a four lane road bridge across St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao. The bridge is named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands...
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WillemstadWillemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior to its dissolution in 2010, it has an estimated population of 140,000. The historic centre of...
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CuraçaoCuraçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
|Netherlands Antilles
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|Portal bridge
|Construction support fault. Bridge fell during construction
|15 killed
|Bridge collapsed at the Punda side
|Bridge reconstruction started in 1969 and was completed in 1971
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Britannia BridgeBritannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. It was originally designed and built by Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic...
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Menai StraitThe Menai Strait is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind,...
|Wales
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|Railway
tubular bridgeA tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid box girder section within which the traffic is carried. Famous examples include the original Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait and the Conwy railway bridge over the River Conwy, designed and tested by William Fairbairn and built by Robert...
|Children accidentally set light to debris and railway sleepers and irreparably damaged the bridge
|No casualties
|Tubular section buckled beyond repair
|Bridge re-built to a new design using the original piers with a road deck over the new railway deck
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West Gate BridgeThe West Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and is a vital link between the inner city and Melbourne's western suburbs with the industrial suburbs in the west and with the city...
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MelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
|Australia
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|Road Bridge
|Collapsed during construction
|35 killed
|112 metres (367.5 ft) span between piers 10 and 11 collapsed
|Section sprung back and collapse during attempts to remove a buckle caused by a difference in camber of 4.5 inches (11.4 cm)
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Cleddau BridgeThe Cleddau Bridge is a toll bridge on the A477 road that spans the River Cleddau between Neyland and Pembroke Dock, Wales. It was originally called the Milford Haven Bridge, Due to errors in the box girder design it collapsed during construction in 1970 and did not become operational until...
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Pembroke DockPembroke Dock is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, lying north of Pembroke on the River Cleddau. Originally a small fishing village known as Paterchurch, the town was greatly expanded from 1814 onwards following the construction of a Royal Naval Dockyard...
and
NeylandNeyland is a town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying on the River Cleddau and the upstream end of the Milford Haven estuary. The nearby Cleddau Bridge crosses the river, linking Neyland to Pembroke Dock.-History:...
|Wales
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|Box girder road bridge
|Inadequacy of the design of a pier support diaphragm
|4 killed, 5 injured
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|70 metres (229.7 ft) cantilever being used to put one of the 150 LT sections into position collapsed
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|South Bridge, Koblenz
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KoblenzKoblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...
|Germany
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|Road bridge
|Bridge bent into Rhine
|13 killed, unknown injured
|Bridge completely destroyed
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Sidney Lanier BridgeThe Sidney Lanier Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia, carrying four lanes of U.S. Route 17. The current bridge was built as a replacement to the original lift bridge which was twice struck by ships. It is currently the longest spanning bridge in...
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Brunswick, GeorgiaBrunswick is the major urban and economic center in southeastern Georgia in the United States. The municipality is located on a harbor near the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 30 miles north of Florida and 70 miles south of South Carolina. Brunswick is bordered on the east by the Atlantic...
|United States
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|Vertical Lift Bridge over the
South Brunswick RiverThe Brunswick River is a tidal river in Georgia. It begins at the Sidney Lanier Bridge at Brunswick, Georgia, at the confluence of the Turtle River with the East River, and flows east to St. Simons Sound, the strait between Saint Simons Island to the north and Jekyll Island to the south.-...
|Struck by the freighter African Neptune
|10 deaths, multiple injuries
|Several spans knocked out
|Repaired during 1972-73 then completely replaced with a new cable-stayed bridge in 2003
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|Welland Canal Bridge No. 12
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Port Robinson, OntarioPort Robinson is a small community in the southernmost part of Thorold, Ontario, Canada. The community is divided in half by the Welland Canal, as there is no bridge in the immediate vicinity to connect the two halves of the community. In the summer, a passenger ferry runs across the canal...
|Canada
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|Vertical lift bridge over the
Welland CanalThe Welland Canal is a ship canal in Canada that extends from Port Weller, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, to Port Colborne, Ontario, on Lake Erie. As a part of the St...
|Struck by the ore carrier Steelton
|0 killed, 2 injured
|Bridge declared a loss; new tunnel or bridge rebuilding costs were found to be unjustified.
|Remaining structure dismantled; passenger ferry instated. Car traffic must use the northern Allanburg bridge or the southern East Main Street tunnel in Welland.
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|Makahali River bridge
|Baitadi
|Nepal
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Tasman BridgeThe Tasman Bridge disaster occurred on the evening of 5 January 1975, in Hobart, the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania, when a bulk ore carrier travelling up the Derwent River collided with several pylons of the Tasman Bridge, causing a large section of the bridge deck to...
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HobartHobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
|Australia
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|Bridge of concrete, Motorway bridge
|Ore freighter Lake Illawarra collided with pylons. A 400 feet (121.9 m) section of bridge collapsed onto freighter and into the river. Four cars drove off bridge
|12 killed (7 ship crewman and 5 motorists)
|2 pylons and three sections of bridge collapsed, ore freighter sank, 4 cars fell into river
|City of Hobart was split in two. Residents living in the east were forced to make a 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) trip to the CBD via the next bridge to the north. Missing sections were reconstructed and the bridge reopened on 8 October 1977
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ReichsbrückeThe Reichsbrücke is Vienna's most famous bridge, linking Mexicoplatz in Leopoldstadt with the Donauinsel in Donaustadt on the other side of the Danube. It lies on an important axis leading from the city centre at Stephansplatz, through Praterstern, and on to Kagran in the north-east...
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ViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
|Austria
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|Road bridge with
tramA tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...
|Column fractured
|1 killed, 0 injured
|Bridge, one bus and a lorry destroyed, ships damaged
|Concrete of the column had never been examined, was internally totally destroyed; "higher force"
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Granville Railway BridgeThe Granville rail disaster occurred on 18 January 1977 at Granville, a suburb in western Sydney, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge which fell down onto two of its passenger carriages...
|Sydney
|Australia
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|Vehicle overpass
|Passenger train passing underneath highway overpass derailed and collided with pylons. Section of bridge collapsed onto train cars.
|83 killed, 210 injured
|Bridge destroyed
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Benjamin Harrison Memorial BridgeThe Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that spans the James River between Jordan's Point in Prince George County and Charles City County near Hopewell, Virginia. The bridge carries vehicle traffic of State Route 156, and is owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation...
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Hopewell, VirginiaHopewell is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 22,591 at the 2010 Census . It is in Tri-Cities area of the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area...
|United States
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|Lift bridge
|An ocean-going tanker ship, the 5,700 ton, 523-ft long S.S. Marine Floridian struck the bridge collapsing a section of the bridge.
|0 killed, minor injuries
|Section of bridge destroyed
|Bridge repaired
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Green Island BridgeThe Green Island Bridge crosses the Hudson River in New York, connecting Green Island with Troy. It opened September 12, 1981.-History:The original Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad bridge was a wood-truss covered bridge built in 1832. On May 10, 1862 it caught fire from the sparks of a passing...
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Troy, New YorkTroy is a city in the US State of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County. Troy is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany and Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital...
|United States
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|Lift bridge
|Flooding undermined the lift span pier resulting in the western lift tower and roadbed span of the bridge collapsing into the Hudson River.
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Bridge destroyed
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Hood Canal Floating BridgeThe Hood Canal Bridge is a floating bridge located in the U.S. state of Washington that carries Washington State Route 104 across Hood Canal and connects the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. At long, The Hood Canal Bridge (officially William A. Bugge Bridge) is a floating bridge located in the U.S....
(William A. Bugge Bridge)
|Olympic, Washington
|United States
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|Floating bridge
|Blown pontoon hatches combined with extreme windstorm
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Western drawspan and western pontoons sunk; other sections survived.
|Lost portions rebuilt 1979-1982; the remainder of the bridge has since been replaced.
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|Almöbron (Tjörnbron)
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StenungsundStenungsund is a locality and the seat of Stenungsund Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 10,067 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Stenungsund was once only an idyllic bathing and vacation location on the Swedish west coast...
|Sweden
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|Steel arch bridge
|Ship collision during bad visibility (mist)
|8 killed, unknown injured
|Bridge and several cars destroyed
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Sunshine Skyway BridgeThe Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a bridge spanning Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cable-stayed main span, and a total length of 21,877 feet . It is part of I-275 and US 19 , connecting St. Petersburg in Pinellas County and Terra Ceia in Manatee County, Florida, passing through Hillsborough...
|near St. Petersburg, FL
|United States
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|Steel cantilever bridge
|Ship collision
|35 killed, 1 injured
|1200 feet (365.8 m) of southbound span, several cars and a bus destroyed
|Turned into state-run fishing pier/replaced with
cable-stayed bridgeA cable-stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more columns , with cables supporting the bridge deck....
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|Hayakawa wire bridge
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Saitois a city located in Miyazaki, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 34,676 and the density of 79.07 persons per km². The total area is 438.56 km².The agricultural products of Saito include green peppers, cucumbers and sweet corn...
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Kyūshūis the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....
|Japan
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|Wire bridge (?)
|Lack of inspection and maintenance for 10 years previous
|7 killed, 15 injured
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Hyatt Regency walkway collapseThe Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse was a collapse of an interior suspended skywalk system that occurred on July 17, 1981, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others during a tea dance. At the time, it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S...
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Kansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
|United States
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|Double-deck suspended footbridge in hotel interior
|Overload/weak joint/construction error
|114 killed, 200 injured
|walkway destroyed
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|Cline Avenue over the
Indiana Harbor and Ship CanalThe Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is an artificial waterway on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana which connects the Grand Calumet River to Lake Michigan. It consists of two branch canals, the 1.25 mile Lake George Branch and the 2 mile long Grand Calumet River Branch...
and surrounding heavy industry
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East Chicago, IndianaEast Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana. The population was 29,698 at the 2010 census.-Geography:East Chicago is located at ....
|United States
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|Indiana State Route 912
|1200 feet (365.8 m) of the bridge collapsed while under construction when a concrete pad supporting shoring towers developed cracks.
|14 killed, 16 injured
|Bridge rebuilt
|Section between US 12 and the
Indiana Toll RoadThe Indiana Toll Road, officially the Indiana East–West Toll Road, is a toll road that runs for east–west across northern Indiana from the Illinois state line to the Ohio state line...
renamed Highway Construction Workers Memorial Highway
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Ulyanovsk railway bridgeThe Aleksandr Suvorov is a Valerian Kuybyshev-type Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga–Don basin. On 5 June 1983 Suvorov crashed into a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The catastrophe led to 177 deaths yet the ship stayed afloat, was restored and still navigates...
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UlyanovskUlyanovsk The city is the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin , for whom it is named.-History:Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. The fort of "Simbirsk" was strategically placed on a hill on the Western bank of the Volga River...
|USSR
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|Railway bridge
|Ship collision
|177 killed, unknown injured
|No collapse
|The span cut the deck house and the cinema hall, whilst the lowest deck was undamaged. The ship damaged the railway bridge and some freight cars from the train fell onto the ship.
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Mianus River BridgeThe Mianus River Bridge carries Interstate 95 over the Mianus River in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut. The bridge suffered a 1983 collapse, killing several motorists. The replacement span is officially named the Michael L...
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Greenwich, ConnecticutGreenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 61,171. It is home to many hedge funds and other financial service companies. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut and is 38+ minutes ...
|United States
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Interstate 95Interstate 95, the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east–west compass direction for 111.57 miles in Connecticut from the Rhode Island state line to the New York State line. I-95 Southbound from East Lyme to the New York State...
(
Connecticut TurnpikeThe Connecticut Turnpike, known now as the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike, is a freeway in Connecticut that runs from Greenwich to Killingly. It is signed as Interstate 95 from the New York state line at Greenwich to East Lyme, and then as Interstate 395 from East Lyme to Plainfield...
) over the
Mianus RiverThe Mianus River is a river in Westchester County, New York and Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the United States. It begins in the town of North Castle, New York in a series of ponds at about altitude...
|Metal corrosion and fatigue/Deferred maintenance
|3 killed, 5 injured
|100 feet (30.5 m) section of the northbound lanes fell into the Mianus River
|Collapse due to failure of the
pin and hanger assemblyA Pin and Hanger assembly is used to connect two plate girders of bridges. These assemblies are used when the space between two bridge piers is too wide to be spanned by a single set of girders. To overcome this, steel beams are set with one end resting on a bridge pier, while the other end is...
supporting the span. Temporary span installed to re-open I-95; new Mianus River Bridge completed in 1990.
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Amarube railroad bridgeThe is a railway bridge in the town of Kami, Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture, on JR West's San'in Main Line between the stations of Yoroi and Amarube.- Background :...
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Kasumi, Hyōgowas a town located in Kinosaki District, Hyōgo, Japan.On April 1, 2005 Kasumi was merged with the towns of Mikata and Muraoka, both from Mikata District, to form the new town of Kami, in Mikata District, and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
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|Strong wind
|6 killed (One train conductor and five factory workers)
|An out-of-service train fell onto a fish processing factory
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Schoharie Creek Bridge collapseThe Schoharie Creek Bridge was a New York State Thruway bridge over the Schoharie Creek near Fort Hunter, in New York State. On April 5, 1987 it collapsed due to erosion at the foundations after a record rainfall...
Thruway Bridge
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Fort Hunter, New YorkFort Hunter is a hamlet in the town of Florida in Montgomery County, New York, on the Mohawk River at Schoharie Creek.In the 18th century, Fort Hunter was built as a fort near the location of one of the two primary Mohawk settlements. The Mohawk name for the village was rendered variously in...
|United States
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|I-90 New York Thruway over the
Schoharie CreekSchoharie Creek in New York, USA flows north from the foot of Indian Head Mountain in the Catskill Mountains through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project.Two notable...
|Improper protection of footings by contractor lead to scour of riverbed under footings.
|10 killed, unknown injured
|Total collapse
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http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/1988/HAR8802.htm
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|Schoharie Creek's Mill Point Bridge
|Wellsville, Amsterdam, NY
|United States
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|State highway
|Flooding
|None
|Total collapse
|The Mill Point Bridge is 3 miles (4.8 km) upstream from the Thruway bridge that collapsed on 5 April. Flood waters from the same flood that finally undermined the Thruway bridge were up to the girders of the Mill Point bridge. It was closed as a safety precaution. It collapsed six days after the earlier collapse.
http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatte/case_studies_project/Schoharie.htm
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|Glanrhyd Bridge
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CarmarthenCarmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....
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River TywiWith a total length of the River Towy is the longest river flowing entirely within Wales, and is noted for its sea trout and salmon fishing.The river rises within of the Teifi on the lower slopes of Crug Gynan in the Cambrian Mountains and, flowing through the Towy Forest, forms the border...
|Train washed off railway bridge by flood waters
|4 killed, including 1 school boy who drowned trying to rescue passengers
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|Aschaffenburg Main River Freeway Bridge
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AschaffenburgAschaffenburg is a city in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.Aschaffenburg is known as the Tor zum Spessart or "gate to the Spessart"...
|Germany
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|Bridge of
Motorway 3 over River Main
|Error in construction
|1 killed, 0 injured
|Bridge total damage
|Partial collapse at Repetitive sliding
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|Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge
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ButterworthButterworth is the principal town of Seberang Perai in the state of Penang in Malaysia. Named after William John Butterworth, Governor of the Straits Settlements , Butterworth was established in the mid-19th century as a landing place across the channel from the capital of Penang, George Town...
,
PenangPenang is a state in Malaysia and the name of its constituent island, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. It is bordered by Kedah in the north and east, and Perak in the south. Penang is the second smallest Malaysian state in area after Perlis, and the...
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|More than 32 killed .
http://www.mvfra.org/Tragic.htm
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Hatchie RiverThe Hatchie River is a stream in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure this is because it is the only major stream of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, channelized, or otherwise...
Bridge
|45 miles (72.4 km) north of
Memphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
|United States
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|Northbound lanes of U.S. 51 over the
Hatchie RiverThe Hatchie River is a stream in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure this is because it is the only major stream of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, channelized, or otherwise...
|Shifting river channel, deterioration of foundation timber piles
|8 killed
|Total collapse
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NTSBThe National Transportation Safety Board is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine...
faulted Tennessee for not fixing the bridge before the collapse
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|Injaka Bridge Collapse
|Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga
|South Africa
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|300m 7-span continuous pre-stressed concrete road bridge over the Ngwaritsane River under construction.
|Incompetence and negligence.
Steel launch nose not structurally stiff enough.
Incorrect temporary works slide path.
Incorrectly placed temporary bearings.
Incorrect feeding of bearing pads.
Under-designed deck slab.
http://www.projectpro.co.za/Project_Parade/Injaka_-_Lesson_Learned/body_injaka_-_lesson_learned.html
|14 killed, 19 injured
|Structure destroyed. Rebuilt completed in 2000, now carrying the R533 over the Injaka Dam (Reservoir).
|Collapsed while being inspected. Victims include design and consulting engineers.
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Cypress Street ViaductThe Cypress Street Viaduct, often referred to as the Cypress Structure, was a 1.6 mile long, raised two-tier, multi-lane freeway constructed of reinforced concrete that was originally part of the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, California.It replaced an earlier single-deck viaduct constructed in the...
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Oakland, CaliforniaOakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
|United States
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I-880Interstate 880 is an Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting San Jose and Oakland, running parallel to the southeastern shore of San Francisco Bay...
(Nimitz Freeway)
|Destroyed in
Loma Prieta EarthquakeThe Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time...
|42 killed
|Structure destroyed, remains demolished and removed. Now a parkway.
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Replacement route for I-880 built elsewhere.
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|San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
|connects San Francisco and
Oakland, CaliforniaOakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
|United States
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I-80Interstate 80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. It is a transcontinental artery running from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area...
|50 feet (15.2 m) section of the upper deck collapsed in
Loma Prieta EarthquakeThe Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time...
|1 killed
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Reopening on 18 November of that year. Currently being replaced with a new self-supporting suspension bridge and approach spans.
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|Swinging Bridge
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Heber Springs, ArkansasHeber Springs is a city in Cleburne County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 6,432 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Cleburne County.-Geography:Heber Springs is located at ....
|United States
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PedestrianA pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running. In some communities, those traveling using roller skates or skateboards are also considered to be pedestrians. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case...
suspension bridge over the Little Red River
|Destroyed by pedestrians swinging the bridge
|5 killed
|Structure destroyed
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Lacey V. Murrow Memorial BridgeThe Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge that carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Mercer Island, Washington. It is the second longest floating bridge on Earth at , whereas the longest is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge just a few...
|Connects Seattle and
Bellevue, WashingtonBellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
|United States
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I-90Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate, and parallels US 20 for the most part. Its western terminus is in Seattle, at Edgar Martinez Drive S. near Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field, and its eastern terminus is in...
|Heavy flooding of pontoons
|0 killed
|2790 feet (850.4 m) of the bridge sank, dumping the contaminated water into the lake along with tons of bridge material
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Astram LineThe is a new transit system operated by Hiroshima Rapid Transit in Hiroshima, Japan.-History:*August 8, 1994 - Opened for the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima...
steel bridge
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Hiroshimais the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
|Japan
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|Metro railway
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|15 Killed (5 workers and 10 civilians), 8 injured
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Claiborne Avenue BridgeThe Claiborne Avenue Bridge, officially known as the Judge William Seeber Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana over the Industrial Canal. It was built by the Louisiana Department of Highways and opened to vehicular traffic in 1957...
|9th Ward,
New Orleans, LouisianaNew Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
|United States
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|Bridge connecting the "upper" and "lower" 9th Wards
|Barge collision
|1 killed, 2 injured
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|Empty barge collided with a support pier for the bridge, causing a 145 feet (44.2 m) section to collapse
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|Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge)
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LucerneLucerne is a city in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country. Lucerne is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and the capital of the district of the same name. With a population of about 76,200 people, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and...
|Switzerland
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|The oldest wooden bridge in Europe, and one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions.
|It is believed that a cigarette started a fire in the evening.
|0 killed, unknown injured
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|78 of 111 of the famous paintings were destroyed and the bridge burned nearly completely down. The bridge was rebuilt to match the original.
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CSXT Big Bayou Canot rail bridgeThe 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck was the derailing of an Amtrak train on the CSXT Big Bayou Canot bridge in northeast Mobile, Alabama, USA, killing 47 and injuring 103, on September 22, 1993. It is the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak's history...
|near
Mobile, AlabamaMobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
|United States
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|Railroad bridge span crossing Big Bayou Canot of
Mobile RiverThe Mobile River is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, the approximately river drains an area of of Alabama, with a watershed extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its drainage basin is the...
|Barge towboat, struck pier in fog; span shifted so next train derailed; impact of derailment destroyed span
|47 killed, 103 injured
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AmtrakThe National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
train
Sunset LimitedThe Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California, and that from early 1993 through late August 2005 also ran east of New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida, making it during that time the only true transcontinental...
carrying 220 passengers plunged into water
|Bridge span had been made movable in case a swing bridge was wanted, and never properly fastened
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Seongsu BridgeThe Seongsu Bridge is a bridge over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. The bridge links the Seongdong and Gangnam districts. The cantilever bridge was completed in 1979 and its total length is 1160 m. It became infamous when it collapsed on October 21, 1994....
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SeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
|South Korea
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|Cantilever Bridge crossing
Han RiverThe Han River is a major river in South Korea and the fourth longest river on the Korean peninsula after the Amnok, Duman, and Nakdong rivers. It is formed by the confluence of the Namhan River , which originates in Mount Daedeok, and the Bukhan River , which originates on the slopes of Mount...
|structural failure-Bad welding
|32 killed, 17 injured
|48 metres (157.5 ft) slab between the fifth and the sixth piers collapsed
|Structural failure was caused by improper welding of the steel trusses of the suspension structure beneath the concrete slab roadway.
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|I-5 Bridge Disaster
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Coalinga, CaliforniaCoalinga is a city in Fresno County, California. The population was 13,380 at the 2010 census, up from 11,668 at the 2000 census. It is the site of both Pleasant Valley State Prison and Coalinga State Hospital. Coalinga is located southwest of Fresno, at an elevation of 673 feet .-Early...
|United States
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|Concrete truss bridge Arroyo Pasajero
|Structural failure - support piers collapsed
|7 killed, 0 injured
|Complete failure of two spans on I-5
|Due to extreme rainfall, the Arroyo Pasajero experienced high volumes of water at high speed. This caused scouring of the river bed undermining the support piers of both spans.
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Koror-Babeldaob BridgeThe Koror-Babeldaob Bridge is a bridge in Palau that connects Koror and Babeldaob Islands. It is a reinforced concrete, portal frame, cable-stayed bridge with a total length of 413 m. It was built by the Kajima Corporation of Japan in 2002, to replace the former, collapsed bridge built by Socio...
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KororKoror is the state comprising the main commercial centre of the Republic of Palau. It consists of several islands, the most prominent being Koror Island ....
and
BabeldaobBabeldaob is the largest island in the island nation of Palau. Its area, 331 km² , makes up over 70% of the area of the entire country, and about 30% of the population, with about 6,000 people living there...
|Palau
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|Collapse following strengthening work
|2 killed, 4 injured
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|Baikong Railway bridge
|Ruyuan,
GuangdongGuangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
|China
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|During construction
|29 killed
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Maccabiah bridge collapseThe Maccabiah bridge collapse was the catastrophic failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 14, 1997. The collapse of the temporary wooden structure killed four and injured 60 Australian athletes who were visiting Israel to participate in the Maccabiah Games...
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Tel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
|Israel
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|Athletes pedestrian Bridge
|Poor design and construction
|4 killed, 60 injured
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|During opening of the
15th Maccabiah GamesThe 1997 Maccabiah Games are remembered for being marred by a bridge collapse that killed several participants.The 15th Maccabiah had more than 5,000 athletes from 53 countries competing in 36 sports....
, a temporary bridge over the filthy Yarkon River collapsed causing two deaths the same day and infected many with the deadly fungus, Pseudallescheria boydii, from which 2 more died later.
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Eschede train disasterThe Eschede train disaster was the world's deadliest high-speed train accident. It occurred on 3 June 1998, near the village of Eschede in the Celle district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The toll of 101 people dead and 88 injured surpassed the 1971 Dahlerau train disaster as the deadliest accident in...
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EschedeEschede is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Situated approximately 15 km northeast of Celle, Eschede lies at the border of the renowned Südheide Nature Park, a protected area of large forests and heaths. Today around 20 small villages are part of the...
|Germany
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|Road bridge
|Train disaster
|101 killed, 105 injured
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|Destruction by train crashing into pillar of motorway bridge, which collapsed onto derailed train
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Hoan BridgeThe Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is a tied arch bridge that connects Interstate 794 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Lake Freeway across the Milwaukee River inlet...
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Milwaukee, WisconsinMilwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
|United States
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|Concrete and steel bridge
|Northbound right lane began to buckle during the morning rush hour and sagged a few feet below normal. Damage was said to have been caused by extremely cold weather, snow, and heavy amounts of traffic.
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Partial Collapse
|Damaged section removed by
controlled demolitionControlled demolition refers to:* Demolition, the tearing-down of buildings and other structures* Controlled Demolition, Inc., Phoenix, Maryland firm that specializes in the use of explosives to create a controlled demolition of a structure...
and rebuilt. Remainder of bridge extensively repaired and retrofitted.
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Hintze Ribeiro disasterOn the night of March 4, 2001, the Hintze Ribeiro disaster occurred when the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge, made of steel and concrete, collapsed in Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, killing 59 people, including those in a bus and three cars that were attempting to get to the other side of the...
|Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva
|Portugal
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|Masonry and steel bridge built in 1887
|Pillar foundation became compromised due to years of illegal, but permitted sand extraction and the central span collapsed.
|59 killed
|Collapse of central sections
|Bridge collapsed when a bus was passing in stormy weather with fast river flow. 3 cars also fell in the collapsed section. Bridge Demolished and replaced by modern bridge
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|Asagiri footbridge
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Akashi, Hyōgois a city located in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Seto Inland Sea west of Kobe.As of April 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 290,776, with 117,392 households, and a population density of 5,907.68 persons per km²...
|Japan
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|Whilst progressing to a summer firework festival, people stampeded and panicked
|11 killed, 247 injured
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Queen Isabella CausewayLocated in southern Cameron County, Texas, the two-mile long Queen Isabella Causeway is the only road connecting South Padre Island, Texas to the mainland. The Causeway was opened in 1974 and replaced the previous bridge which had also been named Queen Isabella Causeway...
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Port Isabel, TexasPort Isabel is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas...
and
South Padre Island, TexasSouth Padre Island is a town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. It may be included as part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas. The population was 2,816 at the...
|United States
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|Concrete bridge for vehicle traffic over
Laguna MadreThe Laguna Madre extends well into Mexico, to the mouth of the Río Soto la Marina in the state of Tamaulipas. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico on the east by a number of barrier islands, including Barra Los Americanos, Barra Jesús María, and Barra Soto la Marina, and is bounded on the west...
|4 loaded barges veered 175 feet (53.3 m) west of the navigation channel and struck one of the bridge supports, causing a partial collapse of 3 sections measuring approximately 80 feet (24.4 m) each.
|8 killed, 13 survivors
|Partial collapse
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The collapse had a significant economic impact on the region since the Causeway is the only road connecting South Padre Island to Port Isabel. The bridge also carried electricity lines and fresh water to the island. State officials brought in ferries to temporarily carry cars across the Laguna Madre. Repair cost for the bridge was estimated US$5 million.
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|Kadalundi River rail bridge
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KadalundiKadalundi is a village in Kozhikode district, Kerala, India. It is a coastal village close to the Arabian Sea. Kadalundi is famous for its bird sanctuary which is home to various migratory birds during certain seasons and has been recently declared as a bio-reserve...
|India
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|140-year old rail bridge collapsed
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|57 killed (all drowned)
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|I-40 bridge disaster
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Webbers Falls, OklahomaWebbers Falls is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 726 at the 2000 census. The name comes from a 7 foot falls in the Arkansas River, itself named in honor of Walter Webber, a Cherokee leader who lived there in the early 19th Century.-The I-40 Bridge Disaster:The...
|United States
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|Concrete bridge for vehicle traffic over
Arkansas RiverThe Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas...
|Barge struck one pier of the bridge causing a partial collapse
|14 killed
|Partial collapse
|Bridge was later repaired
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|Rafiganj rail bridge
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RafiganjRafiganj is a city and a notified area in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Bihar.-Geography:Rafiganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 89 metres .-Demographics:...
|India
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|Terrorists sabotaged rail bridge, causing crash
|130 killed
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|Interstate 95 Howard Avenue Overpass
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BridgeportBridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...
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ConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
|United States
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|Girder and Floorbeam
|Car struck a truck carrying 8000 gallons (30,283.3 l) of heating oil, igniting a fire that melted the bridge superstructure, causing collapse of the southbound lanes
|0 killed, 1 injured
|Partial collapse
|Northbound lanes shored up with
falseworkFalsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support spanning or arched structures in order to hold the component in place until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself...
and reopened 3 days later; temporary bridge installed to carry southbound lanes. New permanent bridge completed in November 2003.
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Kinzua BridgeThe Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania...
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Kinzua Bridge State ParkKinzua Bridge State Park is a Pennsylvania state park near Mount Jewett, in Hamlin and Keating Townships, McKean County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park lies between U.S...
,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
|United States
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|Historic steel rail viaduct
|Hit by tornado with 100 mph winds
|0 killed
|Partial collapse
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The state decided not to rebuild the Kinzua Bridge.
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Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial BridgeThe Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial Bridge is named after Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC, and is located in Latchford, Ontario where Highway 11 crosses the Montreal River....
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Latchford, OntarioLatchford is a Single-tier municipality town in Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on Bay Lake on the Montreal River near the town of Cobalt and the municipality of Temagami, and is 20 kilometres from the city of Temiskaming Shores. The population of the town in...
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|Canada
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|Partial failure
|0 killed, 0 injured
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|Loncomilla Bridge
|near
San JavierSan Javier is a Chilean city and commune located in the Province of Linares, Maule Region. The city lies in the geographical center of the country, some south of Santiago, to the northwest of the provincial capital, Linares, and to the south of Talca, the regional capital...
|Chile
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|Concrete bridge for vehicle traffic over Maule River
|The structure was not built on rock, but rather on fluvial ground.
|0 killed, 8 injured
|Partial collapse
|Bridge was later repaired
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|Mungo Bridge
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CameroonCameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
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|Steel girder for road traffic
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|Partial collapse
|Yet to be repaired
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Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial BridgeThe Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge carries the limited-access Connecticut Route 15 over the Housatonic River, between Stratford and Milford, Connecticut. The bridge was first referred to as the Sikorsky Bridge because Sikorsky Aircraft is headquartered just north of the bridge...
replacement project
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ConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
|United States
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|Collapse occurred in during demolition of the original 1940 span
|1 killed
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|Single fatality occurred when the crane he was operating was knocked from its barge by falling steel from the bridge
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|Big Nickel Road Bridge
|Sudbury, Ontario
|Canada
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|0 killed
|Collapsed onto roadway below during construction
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|Veligonda Railway Bridge
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|India
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|Railway bridge
|flood washed rail bridge away
|114 killed
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|Almuñécar motorway bridge
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AlmuñécarAlmuñécar is a municipality in the Spanish Autonomous Region of Andalusia on the Costa Tropical between Nerja and Motril . It has a subtropical climate...
, Province of Granada
|Spain
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|Motorway bridge
|Part collapsed during construction, reason unknown
|6 killed, 3 injured
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|A 60 metres (196.9 ft) long part fell 50 metres (164 ft)
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Caracas-La Guaira highwayThe Caracas-La Guaira highway is a freeway that connects Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to the port city of La Guaira. It is the primary route between Caracas and the coast, including the main international airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport. The highway was constructed from January...
, Viaduct #1
|Tacagua
|Venezuela
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|Highway viaduct over a gorge
|Landslides
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Total collapse
|Demolished, it was rebuilt and reopened on 21 June 2007
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|E45 Bridge
|Nørresundby
|Denmark
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|Road bridge
|Collapsed during reconstruction due to miscalculation
|1 killed
|Bridge total damage
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|Highway 19 overpass at Laval (
De la Concorde Overpass collapseOn September 30, 2006, part of an overpass collapsed in Laval, a suburb of Montreal, on Boulevard de la Concorde running over Autoroute 19. The collapse crushed two vehicles under it, killing five people and seriously injuring six others who went over the edge while travelling on the overpass...
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LavalLaval is a Canadian city and a region in southwestern Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the 14th largest city in Canada with a population of 368,709 in 2006...
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QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
|Canada
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|Highway overpass
|Shear failure due to incorrectly placed rebar, low-quality concrete
|5 killed, 6 injured
|20 metres (65.6 ft) section gave way
|Demolished; was rebuilt, reopened on 13 June 2007.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/06/14/qc-lavaloverpass0614.html
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Yekaterinburg bridge collapseIn the Yekaterinburg bridge collapse in Russia, on September 6, 2006 railway traffic was paralyzed by the collapse of an automobile bridge near the center of city.- Overview :...
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YekaterinburgYekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
|Russia
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|Collapse during construction
|0 killed, 0 injured
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|Nimule
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NimuleNimule is a town in South Sudan, immediately north of the International border with Uganda.-Location:Nimule is located in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, adjacent to the border with the Republic of Uganda. This location lies approximately , by road, southeast of Juba, the...
|Kenya/Sudan
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|Struck by truck overloaded with cement
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|Pedestrian bridge
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BhagalpurBhagdattpuram was one of the most influential towns in "Aryavarta" . It is supposed to have been concurrent to Patliputra or Patna. Bhagdattpuram finds its mention in the Vedas and Ramayana as well. It is supposed to be the kingdom of Daanvir Karna, the son of Kunti and the Sun God...
|India
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|150-year-old pedestrian bridge (being dismantled) collapsed onto a railway train as it was passing underneath .
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2696728
|More than 30 killed
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EziamaEziama may refer to:* Eziama, Imo, Nigeria* Villages named Eziama : Code Link Coordinates UFI UNI -2793266 -2793265 -2793264 -2793262 -2793263...
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AbaAba is a city and a big trading center in Abia State, southern Nigeria, located on the Aba River. Aba was established by the Igbo People of Nigeria as a market town and then later a military post was placed there by the British colonial administration in 1901...
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|Run Pathani Bridge Collapse
|80 kilometres (49.7 mi) east of
KarachiKarachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
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|Collapsed during the 2006 monsoons
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|Gosford Culvert washaway
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|Culvert collapse
|5 killed (all drowned)
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Highway 325 BridgeThe Collapse of Jiujiang Bridge refers to the partial collapse of a freeway bridge in the city of Foshan, in Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China on June 15, 2007. The bridge, which spans the Xijiang River, collapsed at approximately 5:30 AM...
over the
Xijiang RiverThe Xi River is the western tributary of the Pearl River in China. It is formed by the confluence of the Gui and Xun Rivers in Wuzhou, Guangxi. It then flows east through Guangdong, and enters the Pearl River Delta just east of the Lingyang Gorge in Zhaoqing. The main branch of the Xi flows...
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FoshanFoshan is a city in central Guangdong province in southern China. The prefectural area under the city's jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper ....
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GuangdongGuangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
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|Motorway bridge
|Struck by vessel
|8 killed, unknown injured
|Section collapsed
|Unknown
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|Minneapolis I-35W bridge over the
Mississippi RiverThe Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
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Minneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
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archAn arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side...
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truss bridgeA truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges...
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NTSBThe National Transportation Safety Board is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine...
said that undersized gusset plates, increased concrete surfacing load, and weight of construction supplies/equipment caused this collapse.
|13 killed, 145 injured
|Total bridge failure
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Collapsed at 6:05PM beneath bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic confined to 4 of 8 lanes due to resurfacing in progress. The rebuilt I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge was reopened on 18 September 2008.
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|Tuo River bridge
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FenghuangFenghuang are mythological birds of East Asia that reign over all other birds. The males are called Feng and the females Huang. In modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and the Feng and Huang are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be...
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Hunan' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...
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|unknown
|Currently under investigation, believed to be linked to the fact that local contractors often opt for shoddy materials to cut costs and use migrant laborers with little or no safety training
|34 killed, 22 injured
|Total collapse
|Collapsed during construction as workers were removing scaffolding from its facade
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|Harp Road bridge
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2007/08/15/local_news/03news.txt
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Oakville, WashingtonOakville is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 684 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Oakville is located at ....
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|Main thoroughfare into Oakville over Garrard Creek, Grays Harbor County
|Collapsed under weight of a truck hauling an excavator
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Majority to total collapse; temporary or permanent bridge is needed.
|Approximate weight of load was 180000 pounds (81,646.6 kg); bridge is rated at 35000 pounds (15,875.7 kg). Residents must take a 23 miles (37 km) detour.
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MacArthur MazeThe MacArthur Maze refers to the large freeway interchange located near the eastern end of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California and is the largest freeway interchange in the world...
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Oakland, CaliforniaOakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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|Tanker truck crash and explosion, resulting fire softened steel sections of flyover causing them to collapse.
|1 injured in crash, 0 from collapse
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|Span rebuilt.
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|Shershah Bridge - Section of the Northern Bypass, Karachi
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KarachiKarachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
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|Overpass bridge
|Investigation underway
|5 killed, 2 injured
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|Collapse may have been caused because of lack of material strength. The reconstruction is in progress.
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Can Tho BridgeCần Thơ Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of Cần Thơ in southern Vietnam. The bridge is 2.75 kilometres long . It has a 6-lane carriageway measuring 23 metres in width, with 4 lanes for traffic and two pedestrian lanes...
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|Investigation underway
|36-60 killed, hundreds injured
|Section buckled while construction was underway
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GuineaGuinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
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|Bridge collapsed under the weight of a truck packed with passengers and merchandise.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2018775220070320
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ChhinchuChhinchu is a village development committee in Surkhet District in the Bheri Zone of mid-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6359 people living in 1436 individual households.-External links:*...
suspension bridge
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NepalgunjNepalgunj , also spelled Nepalganj, is a municipality in Banke District, Nepal on the Terai plains near the southern border with Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is 16 km south of Kohalpur and the east-west Mahendra Highway....
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BirendranagarBirendranagar is a city in mid western Nepal, located in the Surkhet District of Bheri Zone. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 22,937 people residing in 4773 individual households....
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|Overcrowded suspension bridge collapsed
|19 killed, 15 missing
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|parts of a bridge collapses during construction
|5 killed, 7 injured
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|Bridge being built between the two Southern Islands.
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FlyoverAn overpass is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway...
bridge
|Punjagutta, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
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|15-30 killed
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StudenkaStudénka is a town of 10,210 residents in Nový Jičín District of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is on the mainline railway between Kraków and Prague, and was the scene of the Studénka train disaster in August 2008. The town is situated on both sides of the historical border...
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|Train crashed into a road bridge over the railway under construction, which collapsed before the arrival of a train
|8 killed, 70 injured
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Cedar Rapids and Iowa City RailwayThe Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway , also known as the Crandic is a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Iowa.-History:...
(CRANDIC) bridge
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Cedar Rapids, IowaCedar Rapids is the second largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, north of Iowa City and east of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city...
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|Railroad bridge
|during
June 2008 Midwest FloodsThe June 2008 Midwestern United States floods were flooding events which affected portions of the Midwest United States. After months of heavy precipitation, a number of rivers overflowed their banks for several weeks at a time and broke through levees at numerous locations. Flooding continued...
|0 killed, 0 injured
|Three of the bridge's four steel spans were swept into the river along with 15 CRANDIC rail cars loaded with rock
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The Cedar River was still swollen in this image taken 10 days after the bridge's collapse.
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| Somerton Bridge
| Somerton, NSW
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| Timber road bridge
| Heavy flooding
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| Collapse of northern span
| Bridge collapsed during heavy flooding due to poor maintenance
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|Bridge on SS9 over River Po
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PiacenzaPiacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...
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|Road bridge
|Collapsed due to flood of River Po
|0 killed, 1 injured
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|replaced by a temporary floating bridge 6 months later, then by a definitive new bridge that opened on 18 December 2010
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|9 Mile Road Bridge at
I-75Interstate 75 is a part of the Interstate Highway System and runs from Miami, Florida to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I-75 enters the state from Ohio in the south, just to the north of Toledo. It runs generally north through Detroit, Pontiac and Bay City, crossing the...
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Hazel Park, MichiganHazel Park is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 16,422. Hazel Park was incorporated in 1941 and bills itself as "The Friendly City"....
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|Road Bridge
|collapsed due to tanker accident
|0 killed, 1 injured
|Police officer pulled over tanker to cause fire
|rebuilt and reopened on 11 December of that year
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|Malahide Viaduct
|Broadmeadow - 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of
Dublin
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|One span of viaduct collapsed after tidal scouring of foundations - first reported by local Sea-scouts.
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|San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
|Connects San Francisco and
Oakland, CaliforniaOakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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I-80Interstate 80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. It is a transcontinental artery running from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area...
|Two tension rods and a crossbeam from a recently installed repair collapsed during the evening commute, causing the bridge to be closed temporarily.
|0 killed, 1 injury
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|During an extended closure as part of the eastern span replacement of the San Fancisco Oakland Bay Bridge over the 2009
Labor DayLabor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.-History:...
holiday, a critical failure was discovered in an
eyebarIn structural engineering and construction, an eyebar is a straight bar, usually of metal, with a hole at each end for fixing to other components...
that would have been significant enough to cause a closure of the bridge. Emergency repairs took 70 hours and were completed on 9 September 2009. This is the repair that failed.
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|Tarcoles Bridge
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OrotinaOrotina is the capital city of the canton of Orotina in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito that includes the city...
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|Suspension bridge built 1924, 270 feet (82.3 m) span.
|Overload by heavy trucks and dead loads (water pipes).
|5 killed, 30 injured
|Bridge total damage
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|Railway Bridge RDG1 48 over the River Crane near Feltham
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FelthamFeltham is a town in the London Borough of Hounslow, west London. It is located about west south west of central London at Charing Cross and from Heathrow Airport Central...
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|Brick arch railway bridge built 1848
|Undermined by scour from river.
|No injuries .
|River span beyond repair.
|Rebuilt as reinforced concrete.
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|Northside Bridge,
WorkingtonWorkington is a town, civil parish and port on the west coast of Cumbria, England, at the mouth of the River Derwent. Lying within the Borough of Allerdale, Workington is southwest of Carlisle, west of Cockermouth, and southwest of Maryport...
. Navvies Footbridge, Workington. Camerton Footbridge,
CamertonCamerton is a small village and civil parish dating back at least to Medieval times situated about north-east of Seaton in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria. The village is linked by road to Seaton, Great Broughton and Flimby, and there was a small footbridge over the river to Great Clifton...
. Memorial Gardens footbridge,
Cockermouth-History:The Romans created a fort at Derventio, now the adjoining village of Papcastle, to protect the river crossing, which had become located on a major route for troops heading towards Hadrian's Wall....
. Low Lorton Bridge, Little Braithwaite Bridge.
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CumbriaCumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
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|Traditional
sandstoneSandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...
bridges.
|Very intense rainfall produced extreme river loads that overwhelmed all the bridges.
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policeThe police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
man killed
|All bridges destroyed or damaged beyond repair
|See
Barker CrossingBarker Crossing was a pedestrian footbridge in Workington, England which was named after police officer Bill Barker, who died when the Northside Bridge in Workington collapsed below him...
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|Kota Chambal Bridge
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Kota, RajasthanKota , formerly known as Kotah, is a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located south of state capital, Jaipur. Situated on the banks of Chambal River, the city is the trade centre for an area in which millet, wheat, rice, pulses, coriander and oilseeds are grown; industries...
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|9 killed, 45 missing
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|Bridge collapsed while under construction
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MyllysiltaThe Myllysilta is a steel girder bridge crossing the Aurajoki in the middle of the city of Turku in Finland. The bridqe was opened in Septemner 19, 2011...
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TurkuTurku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...
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|Bridge bent 143 centimetres (56.3 in) due to structural failures of both piers
|0 killed, 0 injured
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|Demolished June–July 2010
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Gungahlin Drive ExtensionThe Gungahlin Drive Extension is a major road project in Canberra, Australia. It is 9 kilometres long and extended the previously existing Gungahlin Drive from the Barton Highway in the district of Gungahlin to the Glenloch Interchange to connect with Parkes Way and the Tuggeranong Parkway. The...
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CanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
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|Concrete road bridge
|Under investigation
|15 workers injured
|Collapse of the half-built span
| Bridge collapsed during a concrete pour.
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|Kutai Kartanegara ing Martadipura Bridge
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TenggarongTenggarong is the capital of the Kutai Kartanegara Regency of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The former Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate's capital was located in Tenggarong....
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East KalimantanEast Kalimantan is the second largest Indonesian province, located on the Kalimantan region on the east of Borneo island. The resource-rich province has two major cities, Samarinda and Balikpapan...
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IndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
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Suspension bridgeA suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
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Human ErrorHuman Error is the stage name of Rafał Kuczynski , a polish electronic musician, working mostly in the ambient music genre, produced only with a computer...
. Bridge collapsed while workers repaired a cable. (Under Investigation)
|18 Killed, 39 Injured (33 missing)
|Deck completely destroyed, 2 bridge pillars still standing
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Undated
- In about 1970, the new standard gauge
The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...
railbridge at Crystal Brook, South AustraliaCrystal Brook is a town in South Australia, named after the spring-fed creek next to which it was founded. It is north of Adelaide and in 2006 had a population of 1,185.Crystal Brook is situated on Goyder's Line near the border of two climate systems...
was destroyed by a washawayA washaway is a particular kind of landslide that can affect man-made structures such as cuttings, embankments and bridges. They are thus a hazard to railways and road traffic.- Overview :...
. The track was temporarily deviated to the old narrow gaugeA narrow gauge railway is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of between and .- Overview :...
bridge which had yet to be removed.
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- Final Destination 5
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- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the...
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
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- The Mothman Prophecies
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, book about the 1967 collapse of the Silver BridgeThe Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967, killing 46 people. The terms Silver Bridge or Silverbridge may also refer to:* Silver Memorial Bridge, the replacement for the above bridge, opened in 1969....
in Point Pleasant, WV
- "The Trainman" (destruction of rail bridges over the Mississippi River)
- The Cassandra Crossing
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- The General
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