On March 26, 2024, at 1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore metropolitan area of Maryland, United States, collapsed after the container ship Dali struck one of its piers.
Shortly after 6PM on August 1, 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis was loaded with rush hour traffic creeping through an ongoing construction project. Without warning, the bridge collapsed, taking with it 111 vehicles. Thirteen people died and 145 were injured.
The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line travelling from Burntisland to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard.
At 1:28 a.m. on March 26, 2024, the cargo ship Dali struck the historic bridge, causing it to collapse almost instantly. The workers, who were inside their vehicles, plummeted into the cold waters of the Patapsco River. Tragically, six of them lost their lives, while only two survived.
Two people were rescued from the river: one was in "very serious" condition and the other uninjured. One of those rescued was a Mexican national. The lawyer of one survivor said his client, who was in his car as the bridge collapsed, escaped by manually rolling down his window.
““The collision of a vessel as large as the Dali container ship will have far exceeded the design loads for the slender concrete piers that support the truss structure, and once the pier is damaged you can see from the videos that the entire truss structure collapses very rapidly,” said Andrew Barr, a research fellow ...
The collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge stunned everyone, especially engineers. How could the most "modern" suspension bridge, with the most advanced design, suffer catastrophic failure in a relatively light wind?
Luna Gonzalez's body was discovered in a missing construction vehicle, member station WYPR reported. The unified search command led by the U.S. Navy also recovered the bodies of Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35; Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26; Carlos Hernandez, 24; and Maynor Suazo Sandoval, 38.
(KNSI) — Eighteen years ago today, August 1st, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed during evening rush hour, plunging everyone and everything on it into the water and onto the banks below. A total of 13 people were killed and 145 others were injured.
According to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), more than one-third, or 220,000, of the nation's 618,000 bridges need structural repair, rehabilitation work, or replacement, according to the ARTBA's seventh annual analysis of the latest U.S. DOT's National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database.
In the United States, an average of 128 bridges collapse annually. [2] The most common factor for collapse is hydraulic in nature—what moves underneath the bridge wears it away, produces dangerous gaps in its consistency.
The infamous I-40 Bridge collapse occurred just southeast of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, at 7:45 am on the morning of May 26, 2002. A 2,000-foot suspension bridge, which spans the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River, suffered a 580-foot portion collapse when a barge traveling upstream collided with one of its piers.
The deadliest building collapse of all time was the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, which killed 2,996 people and first-responders. Why did the World Trade Center collapse?
As the bridge started to collapse, Cervantes watched as everyone fell into the water, attorney L. Chris Stewart said. He was able to survive, Stewart said, because his car's window was manual. Cervantes was able to roll down the window and escape.
Report of the Royal Commission into the Failure of West Gate Bridge On the 15th October, 1970, at 11.50 am, the 367 foot span of the West Gate Bridge, known as span 10-11, being one of the spans on the western side of the River Yarra, suddenly collapsed.
Will the collapsed Baltimore bridge be demolished soon?
Demolition of the remaining structures from Baltimore's collapsed Key Bridge will begin on July 7, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) announced on Thursday. The demolition efforts in the Patapsco River will take several months with the use of heavy machinery, the MDTA warned.
The original bridge cost $141 million to build, about $743 million in 2024 dollars. In December 2024, President Joe Biden signed into law a government funding bill that included provisions that would have the federal government cover the cost of replacing the bridge.
Shipping channel fully reopens two months after Key Bridge collapse. The channel that allows access to the Port of Baltimore has been fully cleared following nearly 11 weeks of cleanup from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
