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Six people were killed and 10 others hospitalized in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge under construction at Florida International University, police said Friday.
A Florida mayor said Wednesday that an earlier warning of a bridge's “imminent collapse” was cautionary and there was no evidence that the structure was going to fail. Mike Meier, mayor of ...
A FIGG engineer "concluded there were no safety concerns and the crack did not compromise the structural integrity of the bridge," FIU said in a statement. Florida school was aware of bridge crack ...
At the time of the collapse, six lanes of road beneath the bridge were open to traffic. [1] [3] The pedestrian bridge was designed to connect the town of Sweetwater to the campus of Florida International University (FIU) in University Park, a suburb west of Miami, Florida, United States. The two were separated by a busy eight-lane highway ...
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County ( St. Petersburg, Florida ) to Manatee County ( Terra Ceia, Florida ).
CBS News (16 March 2018). "Bridge collapse: 4 dead after Florida International University (FIU) pedestrian bridge collapses in Miami -- live stream, updates -". archive.org; ABC News (15 March 2018). "FIU bridge collapse live coverage: Several killed in pedestrian bridge accident" – via YouTube.
At 1:47 p.m. on March 15, 2018, the 950-ton bridge conceived by Florida International University to cross eight lanes of Southwest Eighth Street in front of its flagship campus collapsed.
The pool deck of Champlain Towers South suddenly suffered a partial collapse at about 1:14 a.m, followed by the progressive collapse of the central section and eastern wing of the building at 1:22 a.m. EDT [a] on June 24, 2021. [26] [27] [28] The collapse of the building lasted less than 12 seconds. [29]