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A 100-foot (30.5 m) section of the bridge's deck on its northbound span collapsed at 1:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 28, 1983. Three people died and three more were seriously injured when two cars and two tractor-trailers fell with the bridge into the Mianus River 70 feet (21.3 m) below.
On September 29, 1977, the bridge was added to the national list of Registered Historic Places. By 1986, vibrations and isolated corrosion in the trusses caused traffic officials and local residents to start worrying about its safety. (This was only a few years after the Mianus River Bridge collapse on Interstate 95 just a few miles away.) [2]
The bridge carries the Northeast Corridor, the busiest rail line in the United States, both in terms of ridership and service frequency. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is operated by the Metro-North Railroad , successor to Conrail, Penn Central, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , which erected it, and is owned by the Connecticut Department of ...
The Hudson River Pilots Association, which assists ships navigating the river, says ships need to have a vertical clearance of around 134 feet to traverse the river's bridges. The Key Bridge was ...
The collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in 2007 The collapse of a section of the Lake Street-Marshall Bridge in 1989 Topics referred to by the same term
The bridge, located about 40 miles south of Jackson on State Route 149 over the Strong River in Simpson County, had been closed for nearly a month so crews could demolish it, the Mississippi ...
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 ...
The replacement of the collapsed I-35W Mississippi River bridge crosses the Mississippi River at the same location as the original bridge, and carries north–south traffic on I-35W. It was constructed on an accelerated schedule, because of the highway's function as a vital link for carrying commuters and truck freight. [165]