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Causeway Collapses Portion of bridge damaged after barges strike columns; Many drivers still missing. Causeway Collapses Portion of bridge damaged after barges strike columns; Many drivers still missing. Causeway Collapses Portion of bridge damaged after barges strike columns; Many drivers still missing. deaths as of late Saturday. Officials said as many as nine to 12 vehicles fell into the Laguna Madre.
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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - 126,122 Feet According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest continuous bridge passing over water, the waters of New Orleans 's Lake Pontchartrain to be exact. The bridge is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can't see land in any direction.
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Recent bridge and highway collapses Some major bridge and highway collapses: 1  Tuesday: A highway overpass under construction in Oroville, Calif., collapses, crushing a delivery truck and seriously injuring a construction worker who fell 50 feet.
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Port Mann Bridge Closed: Falling Ice Damages Vehicles Port Mann Bridge Closed: Falling Ice Damages Vehicles. The Port Mann bridge was closed in December due to reports of falling ice. (B.C. UPDATE - Dec. 20, 2012: TI Corp., the company that runs the bridge, says it will cover the deductible for vehicles damaged by falling ice. VANCOUVER - The new, multi-billion-dollar Port Mann Bridge appears to have failed its first storm test.
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Woman who jumped from bypass bridge ID'd Woman who jumped from bypass bridge ID'd. Authorities have released the name of a woman who died after jumping off the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. Colleen Tyler, 51, of Boulder City, was identified as the person who fell to her death from the U.S. 93 bypass on Monday, the Clark County Coroner's office reported.
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Remembering the Skyway Bridge Disaster: 'This Is Not Explainable' Remembering the Skyway Bridge Disaster: 'This Is Not Explainable'. We remember a deadly accident on Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge 35 years ago Saturday. We hear from survivors and find out what changes were made after the crash of a ship onto the bridge. Thirty-five years ago today, a cargo ship struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay.
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge January 7, 2010 | Florida Location: St. Petersburg. Photos an information about the Sunshine Skyway Bridge which connects St. Petersburg to Palmetto. The original bridge was destroyed May 9th 1980. Read more about this Florida bridge.
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World's widest bridge is shut down just three weeks after opening as ice bombs rain down on drivers Scroll down for video. 1  Widest: With ten lanes the Port Mann Bridge is the widest in the world but massive ice bombs dropped on motorists closing it just three weeks after opening. 2  Massive: The Port Mann Bridge took three years to build at a cost of more than $3 billion but only had three weeks of uninterrupted service.
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Bridge of Death - Suicides at the Golden Gate The Golden Gate Bridge has been a popular jump site for people wanting to commit suicide since the bridge opened in 1937. As of October 2003, there have been approximately 1,200 successful suicide attempts made here1, a figure that has captured the attention of people worldwide.The latest statistics show there is one new successful suicide attempt made at the Golden Gate Bridge every two weeks.s of October 2003, there have been approximately 1,200 successful suicide attempts made here1, a figure that has captured the attention of people worldwide. The latest statistics show there is one new successful suicide attempt made at the Golden Gate Bridge every two weeks.
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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - 126,122 Feet Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, La., - 126,122 feet: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest continuous bridge passing over water, the waters of New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain to be exact. The bridge is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can't see land in any direction.
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Vehicle fire on the Sunshine Skyway bridge One Sunshine Skyway bridge lane southbound open, outside lane closed overnight after tanker fire. Northbound lanes reopen 2 1/2 hours after crash. Tanker was carrying about 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel. About 3,000 gallons of fuel reported still in tanker.
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Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis Kills at Least 7 A rescue worker prepares to search a submerged vehicle after the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed Wednesday. An Interstate highway bridge in downtown Minneapolis loaded with rush-hour traffic dropped more than 60 feet into the Mississippi River last night, sending at least 50 vehicles and passengers into the water.
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) researched and spent quite a lot of time on this. The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that was opened in 1940 collapsed due to heavy winds. The roadway twisted and vibrated violently under 40-mile-per-hour (64 km/h) winds on the day of the collapse.esearched and spent quite a lot of time on this. The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that was opened in 1940 collapsed due to heavy winds. The roadway twisted and vibrated violently under 40-mile-per-hour (64 km/h) winds on the day of the collapse.
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Galloping Gertie Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster. Galloping Gertie, collapsed in a windstorm on November 7,1940. The City of Tacoma and Pierce County Board of Commissioners asked the State to construct a bridge across the Tacoma Narrows in 1935.
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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - 126,122 Feet Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, La., - 126,122 feet: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest continuous bridge passing over water, the waters of New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain to be exact.
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Bridge The world's longest beam bridge is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in southern Louisiana in the United States, at 23.83 miles (38.35 km), with individual spans of 56 feet (17 m). Beam bridges are the most common bridge type in use today.
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- The Sunshine Skyway isn't the first bridge to span the broad mouth of the Tampa Bay. In fact, a four-mile steel cantilever bridge used to live where the new Sunshine Skyway now stands. But during a violent thunderstorm on the morning of May 9, 1980, the freighter Summit Venture plowed into the cantilever bridge.
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Mayday A maritime example: The actual mayday call made by MV Summit Venture when it collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980, causing it to collapse. A noise-reduced, condensed version of the above MV Summit Venture collision call.
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- A Trip to Cairo, Illinois On February 13, 2012 Spurred on by an impromptu excursion to photograph the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge that partially collapsed on January 26 in western Kentucky, I decided to visit a part of the state that I had not yet fully explored.
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the sunshine skyway bridge the sunshine skyway bridge. on the west coast of florida, at the mouth of tampa bay, is the attraction of choice for many contemplating life's self end. it's the #4 suicide bridge in the country, #1 east of california. Break out the Zoloft. Apparently, that's what your friends and neighbors do, at least those who aren't perched atop the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. - s.p.times
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- 05.09.80: a ship crashes into the skyway bridge, knocking down a span, 35 perish. skyway bridge closings: According to the FHP, there has to be sustained high winds of 40 mph or fog that limits visibility to less than 100 feet. check tbinterstates.com for fdot skyway closing updates.
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- The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, 3 mile (5 km) long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.he Golden Gate Bridge is the top most used suicide site/ suicide bridge in the world, after the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (see List of suicide sites). The deck is about 245 feet (75 m) above the water. After a fall of four seconds, jumpers hit the water at around 75 mph or about 120 km/h.
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- Channel 6 this morning showed a live shot once the sun was up. The entire arch of the bridge is collapsed on the boat. I agree with what a lady said on there while ago. This was an accident. The Ledbetter bridge (nothing over 3 tons can cross) is neglect. That boat has made several trips under the bridge but probably hadn't considered the water level was up from all the rain.
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- The Minnesota Bridge Collapse, 5 Years Later. The deadly failure of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis killed 13 people in 2007. Today, its replacement is an engineering success story—yet other infrastructure projects around the country remain on the back burner, even as the tally of deficient bridges and other structures expands.
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Bridge Collapse Finding: PLAUSIBLE. Explanation: On April 14, 1831, a brigade of soldiers marched across the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England-and broke it.
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The most spectacular bridges in the world The Maryland bridge so terrifying locals pay $25 to be driven across in their own car. 1  The William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge spans nearly five miles of the Chesapeake Bay to connect Maryland's eastern and western shores. The structure is regularly subject to violent storms and instills fear in thousands of Baltimore and Washington residents every time they cross it.