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I-75 SB bridge over I-24 near Chattanooga reduced to one lane after partial collapse
TDOT Chief Engineer Paul Degges said in a press conference that an early investigation of the collapse appears to point to an overdimensional load striking the bottom of the bridge and cutting some of the steel reinforcing strands in the beam that eventually collapsed.
April 3, 2019
Business
Back to normal: I-85 in Atlanta reopens six weeks after collapse
While through-trucks are not allowed to take I-85 through downtown Atlanta where the collapse occurred, the number of vehicles that had to be rerouted onto I-285, I-20 and other highways and surface streets clogged traffic around the city during the repair process.
May 16, 2017
Business
Guv: I-85 in Atlanta to reopen by Monday, just six weeks after bridge collapse
Just six weeks after a March 30 bridge collapse on I-85 in Atlanta snarled traffic around the city, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced Wednesday the interstate will reopen by the morning rush hour on Monday, May 15, and possibly sooner.
May 10, 2017
Business
Truck brings down Oklahoma City bridge
There were no reported injuries and the driver said that he had cleared the May Avenue Bridge while traveling east bound on Oklahoma Highway 3 earlier that day, but had struck it later while driving west bound.
May 20, 2016
Voices
A view on increasing safety through training in wake of historic Indiana bridge’s destruction
“It’s difficult to imagine how a driver could earn a CDL without understanding weights and how they pertain to axles, gross weight and bridge laws.” –Ellen Voie
January 6, 2016
Business
Trucker destroys historic bridge, cites ignorance of ton conversion weight
An historic cast-iron bridge in Paoli, Ind. sustained heavy damage on Christmas Day when a tractor trailer driver attempted to cross, despite the bridge’s 6-ton weight limit.
January 5, 2016
Business
Washington sues truck operator whose oversized load caused 2013 I-5 bridge collapse
WDOT is seeking $17 million from the defendants — the cost of the response to and repair of the collapse, it says.
February 9, 2015
Business
I-75 South, following bridge collapse in Cincinnati, reopens ahead of schedule
Officials expect closures to continue at least for the next two days. The collapse was of the old Hopple Street overpass, and reportedly occurred while the span was undergoing demolition work.
January 21, 2015
Channel 19
Roundup: I-5 bridge collapse weighing heavy, operators flying the flag
Many of the same issues are in the political foreground today around highway regulation and funding as were being debated in 2007 when the Minneapolis I-35W bridge fell, with sometimes overheated rhetoric.
May 28, 2013
Business
Detours for I-5 bridge collapse in Washington
A large part of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Mount Vernon, Wash., collapsed Thursday evening after an oversize truck hit an overhead span of the bridge.
May 24, 2013
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