The Worst Bridge Collapses in the Past 100 Years
Left; Harvey Eugene Smith / AP; Corbis
Dec. 15, 1967: Silver Bridge, connecting Point Pleasant, W. Va. and Kanauga, Ohio
After 39 years of increasingly heavy traffic loads, a stress fracture opened in a link near the Ohio end of the eye-bar suspension bridge.
Deaths: 46
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