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TRAGEDY * USA - Major bridge collapses into Mississippi River
One second, the Interstate 35W bridge -- the major link between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. -- stands upright, carrying cars and trucks between the twin cities. The next, it crumbles and slides with a crash into the Mississippi River 
Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -2 Aug 2007: -- A security video across the span captures the tragedy... There was reportedly "bumper-to-bumper" traffic on the 40 year-old bridge at the time of collapse. News footage shows tones of concrete and twisted metal, wrapped around vehicles, or floating in the river. About 50 vehicles reportedly plunged into the river or onto the ground below... Jamie Winegar of Houston told AP she was sitting in traffic. All of a sudden she heard "boom, boom, boom and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping"... Workers have been repairing the bridge's surface as part of improvements along that stretch of the interstate, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper reported... (AP Photo, above, by Jacob Reynolds - Emergency workers are seen on the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis after it collapsed, sending numerous vehicles into the Mississippi River, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The busy highway bridge that spans the Mississippi River just northeast of Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour Wednesday, sending dozens of cars, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water)* Canadian infrastructure could be in danger, reports suggest
Ottawa,Ont,CAN -Truck News -2 Aug 2007: -- In the wake of a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis last night, alarms are being sounded about the condition of Canada’s infrastructure... A 2006 Statistics Canada report suggests Canadian bridges have reached 49% of their useful life. Roads and highways have reached 59% of their useful life according to the same report... Saeed Mirza, a professor of civil engineering with McGill University, told CanWest News Service that “If we do not maintain our infrastructure, do not upgrade it, we’ll continue to have spectacular collapses"...
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