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The bridge collapse is a sad but insignificant accident : There are far worse accidents than this one every year in every country (fire, plane crash, hurricane, etc...). Moreover, this accident will probably not have any notable consequence (like a law, or a new way to design bridges, to prevent this kind of accident).
The Strong River Bridge, constructed in 1935, was among the 3% of Mississippi bridges found to be in overall poor condition, the former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Maria ...
The Weiti River is an estuarine river to the north of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. It rises as the Weiti Stream in the low hills approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Silverdale and emerges into the Hauraki Gulf immediately south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula .
The National Transportation Safety Board recovered the ship's data recorder and will construct a timeline of events leading up to the crash. 2 bodies pulled from underwater wreckage of collapsed ...
A portion of a Mississippi bridge in the process of being demolished collapsed prematurely, killing three workers, officials said. The bridge, which spanned the Strong River in Simpson County on ...
Plans to bridge the Weiti River near Stillwater were first envisaged as early as the 1970s as a way to solve numerous transport issues connecting the Whangaparāoa Peninsula to Auckland City. [ 14 ] Following early property purchases in the 1990s, [ 15 ] in 2001, the then-proposed toll-road was first designated in the district plan. [ 16 ]
An investigation into what caused the crash and subsequent bridge collapse is underway by the National Transportation Safety Board. It is anticipated to take one to two years .
Weiti Village, also called Weiti Bay, is a rural settlement to the north of Auckland City, New Zealand.It is under the local governance of the Auckland Council.. Weiti Village is on the north shore of the Ōkura River, [3] and is separated from the rest of Auckland by the Okura Bush Scenic Reserve.