Silver Bridge Disaster
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The beautiful bridge was built and constructed ion the year of 1928. It was a piece of symbol in everybodys eyes who drove across this bridge everyday. One day tragedy struck the Silver Bridge.On december 15, 1967 the bridge collapsed into the Ohio river. With a lenght of 2235 feet just feel into the river because of stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue. A total of 37 cars were on the bridge that day sending 31 of them along with the bridge that collapsed into the river. 46 people died that day because of this horrible disaster. People also said that the reason why it collapsed was because of the new weight of the cars that were being made during that time in life. this was a disaster that effected a lot of people.