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This is a list of bridge failures.
Before 1800
Bridge | Location | Country | Date | Construction type, use of bridge | Reason | Casualties | Damage | Comments |
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Milvian Bridge |
Rome | Rome | 28 October 312 | Wooden pontoon bridge replacing permanent stone bridge | Use by retreating Maxentian troops during the Battle of the Milvian Bridge | Unknown | Bridge unusable | |
London Bridge |
London | United Kingdom | 17 October 1091 | Wooden bridge | London tornado of 1091 | Unknown | Bridge unusable | |
Sint Servaasbrug | Maastricht | Holy Roman Empire | 1275 | Wooden bridge | Collapsed from the weight of a large procession | 400 | Bridge unusable | |
Judith bridge | Prague | Kingdom of Bohemia | 2 February 1342 | Stone bridge | Severe flood | Unknown | Two-thirds of the 170 years old bridge collapsed or heavily damaged. One arch survived to this day. Charles Bridge was built next to its remains. Construction started in 1357 and ended in 1402.[1] | Surviving arch of Judith bridge |
Rialto Bridge |
Venice | Venetian Republic | 1444 | Wooden structure with central drawbridge. | Overload by spectators during a wedding | Unknown | Bridge total damage |
1800–1899
Bridge | Location | Country | Date | Construction type, use of bridge | Reason | Casualties | Damage | Comments |
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Eitai Bridge (Eitai-bashi) | Tokyo (Edo) | Japan | 20 September 1807 (Lunisolar 19 August) | Wooden beam bridge over River Sumida | Overloaded by festival | 500–2000 killed | 1 pier and 2 spans destroyed | Edo-Tokyo Museum |
Ponte das Barcas | Oporto | Portugal | 29 March 1809 | Wooden pontoon bridge over River Douro | Bridge overloaded by thousands of people fleeing a bayonet charge of French Imperial Army led by Marshal Soult during the First Battle of Porto | 4000 killed | Several spans destroyed. Bridge reconstructed, dismantled in 1843 | |
Saalebrücke bei Mönchen-Nienburg | Nienburg, Saxony-Anhalt | Germany | 6 December 1825 | Chain-stayed bridge with small bascule section | Poor materials, unbalanced load and vibrations by subjects singing to honour the duke | 55 drowned or frozen to death | Bridge half damaged, other side demolished | [2] |
Broughton Suspension Bridge | Broughton, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom | 12 April 1831 | Suspension bridge over River Irwell | Bolt snapped due to mechanical resonance caused by marching soldiers | 0 dead, 20 injured | Collapsed at one end, bridge quickly rebuilt and strengthened | The rebuilt Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1883. This disaster caused the "break step" rule issued to UK soldiers. |
Yarmouth suspension bridge | Great Yarmouth | United Kingdom | 2 May 1845 | Suspension bridge | Spectators crowded the bridge over the River Bure to view a clown travel the river in a barrel. Their position shifted as the barrel passed; the suspension chains snapped and the bridge deck tipped over. | 79 people drowned, mainly children.[3] | Suspension chains snapped due to overload. | Contemporary illustration of the aftermath of the collapse |
Dee Bridge | Chester | United Kingdom | 24 May 1847 | Cast iron beam bridge over the River Dee | Overload by passenger train on faulty structure | 5 killed | Bridge rendered unusable[4] | The Dee bridge after its collapse. The failure was due to faulty design. |
Ness Bridge | Inverness | United Kingdom | 1849 | Stone Bridge over River Ness | Flooding overwhelmed the 164-year-old bridge | Unknown | Either completely destroyed or damaged beyond repair[5] | Rebuilt as a suspension bridge, which itself was replaced in 1961 due to inability to handle increased traffic.[5] |
Angers Bridge | Angers | France | 16 April 1850 | Suspension bridge over Maine River | Wind and possibly resonance of soldiers led to collapse | 226 killed, unknown injured | Bridge total damage | The Angers Bridge after its collapse |
Wheeling Suspension Bridge | Wheeling, West Virginia (then Virginia) | United States | 17 May 1854 | Suspension bridge carrying the National Road over the Ohio River | Torsional movement and vertical undulations caused by wind | No casualties | Deck destroyed; towers left intact and remain in use today | |
Gasconade Bridge | Gasconade, Missouri | United States | 1 November 1855 | Wooden rail bridge | Inaugural train run conducted before temporary trestle work was replaced by permanent structure | 31 killed, hundreds injured | Span from anchorage to first pier destroyed | |
Desjardins Canal Bridge | Dundas, Ontario | Canada | 12 March 1857 | Rail bridge | Mechanical force due to broken locomotive front axle. Desjardins Canal disaster ensued. | 59 killed | [6] | |
Sauquoit Creek Bridge | Whitesboro, New York | United States | 11 May 1858 | Railroad trestle | Weight (two trains on the same trestle) | 9 killed, 55 injured | [7] | |
Springbrook Bridge | Between Mishawaka and South Bend, Indiana | United States | 27 June 1859 | Railroad embankment bridge | Washout | 41 killed (some accounts of 60 to 70) | Known as the Great Mishawaka Train Wreck or the South Bend train wreck | |
Bull Bridge | Ambergate | United Kingdom | 26 September 1860 | Cast iron rail bridge | Cast iron beam cracked and failed under weight of freight train | 0 killed 0 injured | Total collapse of bridge | Section of broken girder |
Wootton Bridge | Wootton | United Kingdom | 11 June 1861 | Cast iron rail bridge | Cast iron beams cracked and failed | 2 killed | Total damage to floor | Wootton Bridge crash, caused by a flawed design & unreliable cast iron, failed from a repair |
Platte Bridge | St. Joseph, Missouri | United States | 3 September 1861 | Sabotage by Confederate partisans during US Civil War. | 17–20 killed, 100 injured | |||
Chunky Creek Bridge | near Hickory, Mississippi | United States | 1863 | Winter flood caused a debris build-up which shifted the bridge trestle. | ||||
Train bridge | Wood River Junction, RI | United States | 19 April 1873 | Washaway[10][11] | 7 killed, 20 injured | Railroad Disaster at Meadow Brook, Rhode Island | ||
Dixon Bridge (aka Truesdell Bridge) | Dixon, Illinois | United States | 4 May 1873 | Iron vehicular bridge (for pedestrians and carriages) over the Rock River | Large crowd assembled on one side to view baptism ceremony; bridge design flaw | 46 killed 56 injured | Bridge was a total loss | The collapse of the Dixon (Ill.) Truesdell Bridge, May 4, 1873. |
Portage Bridge | Portageville, New York | United States | 5 May 1875 | Wooden beam bridge over the Genesee River | Fire | 0 killed 0 injured | Bridge was a total loss | Fire destroyed all but the concrete abutments |
bridge | between Valparaíso and Santiago | Chile | July 1875 | Collapsed beneath the overnight train | ||||
Ashtabula River Railroad Bridge | Ashtabula, Ohio | United States | 29 December 1876 | Wrought iron truss bridge | Possible fatigue failure of cast iron elements | 92 killed, 64 injured | Bridge total damage | Ashtabula bridge disaster |
Tay Rail Bridge | Dundee | United Kingdom | 28 December 1879 | Continuous girder bridge, wrought iron framework on cast iron columns, railway bridge | Faulty design, construction and maintenance, structural deterioration and wind load | 75 killed (60 known dead), no survivors | Bridge unusable, girders partly reused, train damaged | Fallen Tay Bridge. Locomotive was saved from the Tay and was still in use 19 years later; known as "The Diver". |
Honey Creek Rail Trestle | Boone County, Iowa | United States | 6 July 1881 | Railroad trestle | Flash flood washed out timbers supporting trestle | 2 killed (one body never recovered) | Bridge rebuilt | Kate Shelley, who lived nearby, was able to warn the railroad to stop an oncoming passenger train. |
Inverythan Rail Bridge | Aberdeenshire | United Kingdom | 27 November 1882 | Cast iron girder rail bridge | Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse as train passed | 5 killed, 17 injured | Bridge rebuilt | Crash scene after the accident. The Board of Trade issued warning about similar under-bridges. |
Little Silver | New Jersey | United States | 30 June 1882 | Trestle railway bridge | Train derailment due to insecure railroad switch on the northbound side of the bridge. | 3 killed, 65+ injured | Estimated $15,000 worth of damage to the bridge and cars combined. Bridge was repaired. | Several rail cars derailed and fell off the bridge into Parker's Creek. Ulysses S. Grant was a passenger.[12] |
Osijek railway bridge | Osijek | Hungary / Croatia border | 23 September 1882 | Railway bridge | Bridge collapsed into the flooding Drava river under the weight of a train | 28 | Washout by flood Collapsed wooden bridge later replaced by iron bridge. |
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Camberwell Bridge | London | United Kingdom | 15 May 1884 | Cast iron trough girder bridge over railway | Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse of four girders | 0 killed, 1 injured | Bridge rebuilt | |
Bussey Bridge | Boston | United States | 14 March 1887 | Iron railroad bridge collapses under train | Poor construction[15] | 30 killed, 40 injured | Bridge rebuilt | A drawing of the collapsed bridge. |
Big Four Bridge | Louisville, Kentucky | United States | 10 October 1888 | Caisson and truss | 12 died when caisson flooded,
4 died when beam broke, |
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Conemaugh Viaduct | Upriver from Johnstown, Pennsylvania | United States | 31 May 1889 | Stone,78-foot (24 m) high railroad bridge | Washed away by the Johnstown Flood | 0 | total loss | |
Norwood Junction Rail Bridge | London | United Kingdom | 1 May 1891 | Cast iron girder fails under passing train | Hidden defects in cast iron caused collapse | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Bridge_collapse