| Highway Accident Report Collapse of I-35W Highway Bridge Minneapolis, Minnesota August 1, 2007 Contributor(s): Safety Services, National Trasportation (Author) |
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ISBN: 1514695197 ISBN-13: 9781514695197 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Motorcycles - History |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.94 lbs) 178 pages |
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| Publisher Description: About 6:05 p.m. central daylight time on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, the eight-lane, 1,907-foot-long I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, experienced a catastrophic failure in the main span of the deck truss. As a result, 1,000 feet of the deck truss collapsed, with about 456 feet of the main span falling 108 feet into the 15-foot-deep river. A total of 111 vehicles were on the portion of the bridge that collapsed. Of these, 17 were recovered from the water. As a result of the bridge collapse, 13 people died, and 145 people were injured. On the day of the collapse, roadway work was underway on the I-35W bridge, and four of the eight travel lanes (two outside lanes northbound and two inside lanes southbound) were closed to traffic. In the early afternoon, construction equipment and construction aggregates (sand and gravel for making concrete) were delivered and positioned in the two closed inside southbound lanes. |