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Upstate road closed by bridge collapse

A bridge collapse has closed a portion of a road in Oconee County. READ MORE: <a ...

West Gate review – jaw-droppingly staged production recounts Melbourne’s tragic bridge collapse

The stage feels dangerous from the opening seconds, in a play that has its faults but hums with dread as it builds towards a mighty crash ...
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Silver Bridge collapse anniversary | 58 years later, families still remember

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Fifty-eight years after the deadliest bridge collapse in United States history, for J.O. Miller, it still feels like yesterday. “There’s nothing I can do about it,” ...
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How a Bridge Collapse Caused New Zealand’s Worst Train Disaster

On Christmas Eve in 1953, a train in New Zealand plunged into a river after a bridge collapsed beneath it. The Tangiwai disaster remains the country’s worst rail tragedy, claiming dozens of lives.
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How a doomed bridge became the Pacific Northwest’s most unlikely reef

When the two-lane Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, it was hailed as a “triumph of structural engineering.” Locals quickly gave it another name—Galloping Gertie—after noticing how the ...