If I recall this incident had the state check all infrastructure and it was like wayyyyy bad. Then the country did studies and apparently all our infrastructure is fucked
I just watched an episode of I Survived about this incident. That school bus was full of kids and the driver, Kim, had (I think) a broken back and numerous other injuries and had to hold her foot on the brake the whole time they waited for and were being rescued so the bus wouldn’t roll backwards. What a fucking beast and a hero!
They also interviewed her daughter and she was talking about the semi that you see next to the bus. Right before this happened, all the kids were trying to get him to honk his horn and he was messing with them and doing it to make them smile. He didn’t make it through the collapse :(
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Saint Anthony Falls of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The bridge opened in 1967 and was Minnesota's third busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. It had a catastrophic failure during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The NTSB cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse, noting that a too-thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets, and additional weight on the bridge at the time contributed to the catastrophic failure.
Texaslabrat on May 15th, 2021 at 12:57 UTC »
If I recall this incident had the state check all infrastructure and it was like wayyyyy bad. Then the country did studies and apparently all our infrastructure is fucked
katf1sh on May 15th, 2021 at 14:55 UTC »
I just watched an episode of I Survived about this incident. That school bus was full of kids and the driver, Kim, had (I think) a broken back and numerous other injuries and had to hold her foot on the brake the whole time they waited for and were being rescued so the bus wouldn’t roll backwards. What a fucking beast and a hero!
They also interviewed her daughter and she was talking about the semi that you see next to the bus. Right before this happened, all the kids were trying to get him to honk his horn and he was messing with them and doing it to make them smile. He didn’t make it through the collapse :(
ElGato-TheCat on May 15th, 2021 at 14:57 UTC »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge