7 Horrifying Cases of Collapsed Bridges

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Here we take a look at horrifying cases of collapsed bridges. These terrible incidents of bridges falling down into a river changed history.

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7: Yangmingtan Bridge
The 15.4 km-long Yangmingtan Bridge is located in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. It is the country’s longest bridge on the northern side of the Yangtze River. Construction on the bridge began in 2009, and it was completed in only 18 months. As Harbin’s first suspension bridge its total building cost was estimated at around 300 million dollars. Even within the context of China’s fast growing infrastructure, the project was finished so quickly that it received praises from the state media
6: The Seongsu Bridge
Construction on this bridge, which stretched over Seoul’s Han River, in South Korea, was completed in 1979. It measures 1160 meters. On the 21st of October, 1994, the bridge collapsed because of a suspension structure failure. One of the concrete slabs fell as its support steel trusses had not been welded properly. 32 lives were lost in the accident. 17 people were injured. Because of its overall weak structure, the Seongsu Bridge had to be rebuilt
5: The Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Although it has been rebuilt the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge, spanning Florida’s Tampa Bay, was first opened to traffic in 1954, on the 6th of September. On the 9th of May 1980, at approximately 7:33 am, the MV Summit Venture freighter collided with one of the bridge’s support columns. The incident took place during a massive thunderstorm and caused more than 1200 feet of the bridge to plummet into the Tampa Bay. A Greyhound bus, six cars and a truck fell into the water from a height of 150 feet.
4: The Silver Bridge
The Silver Bridge was built in 1928 and its name was due to the color of its aluminum paint coating. It was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge that stretched over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, North Virginia to Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1967, on the 15th of December, the structure collapsed during rush-hour traffic which resulted in the deaths of 46 people. Two of them were never recovered. The bridge collapsed due to overloading and the failure of one single eyebar in the suspension chain. Investigations revealed that the defect which had compromised the eyebar’s structural integrity was only 0.1 inches deep, had been caused
3: The Rafiganj Rail Disaster
The Rafiganj rail disaster which claimed the lives of at least 130 people was caused by a faulty colonial era bridge over North-Central India’s Dhave River. The Rajdhani Express, a train carrying more than one thousand people, derailed from the 300-foot-long bridge on the 10th of September, 2002, at approximately 10:40 pm. The accident took place near the town of Rafiganj and fifteen of the train’s eighteen cars fell from the tracks. Two of them went into the river below, sealing the fates of the passengers trapped inside. The powerful impact from the crash had also caused people from other carriages to be thrown into the river. The region’s poor roads hindered the efforts from rescuers and local military personnel
2: The Stirling Bridge
One of the earliest bridge collapses ever documented took place during the Battle of Stirling Bridge on September 11, 1297. The bridge was a narrow wooden structure over the River Forth, near Stirling Castle. It served as a significant strategic point during the First War of Scottish Independence. The Scottish forces lead by William Wallace and Andrew Moray confronted the combined English forces of Hugh de Cressingham and the 6th Earl of Surrey, John de Warenne. Even though the Scottish forces were outnumbered, they used the bridge as a tactical advantage. Moray and Wallace waited for a significant number of English troops
1: The Hyatt Regency Walkway
In what is considered to be one of the deadliest structural collapses in the history of the United States, this disaster claimed the lives of 114 people and injured 216. The incident took place on the 17th of July, 1981, at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel was opened on the 1st of July 1980. Its most distinctive features were the walkways which were suspended from the ceiling in the hotel’s lobby. They were made out of steel and glass each weighing around 64.000 pounds and measuring around 120 feet. The second level walkway was aligned directly below the fourth level walkway. On July 17th, in the evening, approximately 1600 people had gathered in the hotel lobby to watch and take part in a tea dance party. At the same time 40 people were watching it from the second walkway. 16 to 20 people were watching it from the fourth. A design flaw concerning the support beams for the forth walkway and the steel tie rods meant to carry the weight of both bridges made it barely possible for the structures to stand on their own. Once people started