On This Date In History...
By J.R. Manning
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge between Kanauga, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed into the Ohio River. The collapse occurred during afternoon rush hour without any warning, the bridge simply failed. 46 people perished in the disaster.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
It was a significant event in bridge history, because a result of the collapse was the creation of the National Bridge Inspection Standard, mandating that all bridges longer than 20 feet be inspected every two years.
An essay about the bridge, the collapse, appears on the Silver Memorial Bridge, opened exactly two years later, on this date in 1969.