The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has told Pittsburg County officials to enforce the 5-ton weight limit on a bridge that cross Bull Creek. County Commissioner Trent Myers told the McAlester News-Capital that a bridge inspector labeled the bridge as fracture …
A pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a Detroit, Mich., freeway after a trash truck struck the overpass early Friday, leaving the truck driver dead and snarling rush hour traffic, officials said. Two other vehicles were struck by debris, but no one …
Police say seven mourners were killed when a bridge broke as they were transporting a coffin to a graveyard in northern Vietnam. Police officer Phung Quang Tuyen said 37 others were injured Monday – 23 seriously – in Tam Duong …
The Mediterranean island of Sardinia, prized by the jet-set for its white sand beaches and crystal-clear seas, was a flood-ravaged mud bath Tuesday after a freak torrential rainstorm killed at least 17 people, downed bridges and swept away cars. Italian …
Workers are still removing pieces of Washington’s Interstate 5 bridge that fell into the Skagit River on May 23 when an oversize truck hit a girder. A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, Peter Knudson, said Monday in an …
Investigation into the cause of the Skagit River bridge collapse has moved underwater. The Seattle Times reports the National Transportation Safety Board is focusing its investigation on certain pieces of the bridge beams. NTSB officials say they are particularly interested …
It’s not terribly uncommon for trucks to strike bridges in Washington state – it’s just that such accidents don’t usually cause the structures to collapse. The state Department of Transportation says there were 21 bridge-strikes involving trucks last year, 24 …
Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound. The crossings are kept standing by engineering design, not supported with brute strength or redundant protections …
A 300-yard wooden railroad bridge in Central Texas has fallen after catching fire in a dramatic collapse captured on cellphone video. Lometa Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Jamie Smart said Thursday that nobody was hurt in the blaze in rural Lampasas …
As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended …