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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by _heimdall on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:13AM (#39826869)
That's a common topic here, yes, though honestly I rarely hear about a bridge collapse. I don't actually remember the last time I saw news of a bridge or overpass collapse that wasn't causes by damage like this.

Makes me want to find the data now. I don't actually known if our bridges are too old, poorly maintained and falling apart early, or if the whole topic is just herd mentality and politics.

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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by Hamuko on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:18AM (#39826902)
>I don't actually remember the last time I saw news of a bridge or overpass collapse that wasn't causes by damage like this.

Fern Hollow Bridge Mk. II?

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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by themaninthedark on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:01PM (#39832194)
If we count pedestrian overpasses as part of overpass; FIU pedestrian overpass.
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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by dredmorbius on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:20AM (#39827475)
Among the more spectacular recent US bridge failures was the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, which failed during rush hour with bumper-to-bumper traffic with a loss of 13 lives on 1 August 2007: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge>

There's a list of many more failures at Wikpedia, though international in scope:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures>

There are a number of ship-bridge collisions listed, as well as fuel-tanker explosions, which seems to be a surprisingly common failure mode.

Also numerous failures in China, though how much of that is simply a scale effect I can't say.

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