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The 35W Bridge Remembrance Garden commemorates the victims and survivors of the I-35W bridge collapse. [173] It is located off West River Parkway in Minneapolis. [ 174 ] The memorial was revealed to the public on August 1, 2011, the four-year anniversary of the collapse. [ 174 ]
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 ...
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 collapsed bridge and MS Star Clipper: Sunshine Skyway Bridge: near St. Petersburg, Florida: United States 9 May 1980: Steel cantilever bridge The freighter Summit Venture struck the bridge during a storm, causing the center section of the southbound span to collapse into Tampa Bay 35 killed, 1 injured
The previous 9340 Bridge, post-collapse. During the evening rush hour at 6:05 pm on August 1, 2007, the main spans of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed and fell into the river and onto its banks, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The bridge opened in 1967, and was expected to carry 66,000 vehicles per day.
The collapse sent shock waves across the country, sparked supply chain concerns and broke the hearts of locals who considered the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which stretches a mile-and-a-half and ...
The Francis Scott Key Bridge toppled shortly before 1:30 a.m. ET Tuesday when the Dali, a 213-million-pound loaded cargo vessel, lost power while trying to leave the port and smashed into one of ...
Mississippi Highway 33 bridge failure just north of Rosetta, Mississippi, caused by the April 1974 flood on the Homochitto River.. In 1938 the United States Army Corps of Engineers began channelizing the river by building the Abernathy Channel, a cutoff running from the Homochitto River near Doloroso to the Mississippi River about 15 miles (24 km) upstream from where the Homochitto originally ...