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Hatchie River US 51 Bridge

Tipton County, Tennessee, and Lauderdale County, Tennessee
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Overview
Lost Concrete tee beam bridge over Hatchie River on Northbound US 51 (TN 3)
Location
Tipton County, Tennessee, and Lauderdale County, Tennessee
Status
Collapsed
History
Built 1936; parallel southbound bridge built 1974; collapsed April 1, 1989, killing 8 people; replaced by new bridge in 1992
Design
Tee beam(?) with concrete balustrade
Dimensions
Total length: 4,201.0 ft. (0.8 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.63611, -89.61056   (decimal degrees)
35°38'10" N, 89°36'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/263614/3946727 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Ripley South
Inventory number
BH 43986 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (6,159)
Built 1936 (752)
Built during 1930s (8,579)
Collapsed (75)
Concrete tee beam (1,090)
Disaster (6)
Lauderdale County, Tennessee (4)
Lost (10,499)
 Lost 1989 (75)
Lost during 1980s (440)
Owned by state (9,854)
Tennessee (778)
Tipton County, Tennessee (3)
Total length over 2500 feet (595)
US 51 (30)

Update Log 

  • January 31, 2010: Added by James Baughn

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Hatchie River US 51 Bridge
Posted December 26, 2010, by D. W. Adams (weetbixmarmite [at] yahoo [dot] com)

A couple pictures of this bridge's collapse can be seen at http://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/structure2/main_structure.php and http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/95summer/p95su23.cfm