After only 39 years in service, it experienced a catastrophic failure during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse, noting that an excessively thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets.

2017年8月1日 · Ten years ago, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis collapsed, sending cars, trucks and even a school bus that were crawling over it in...

Shortly after 6 pm on August 1, 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis was loaded with rush hour traffic creeping through an ongoing construction project. Without warning, the bridge collapsed, taking with it 111 vehicles. Thirteen people died and 145 were injured.

2017年7月30日 · MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ten years ago Tuesday, a bridge carrying a busy stretch of freeway collapsed without warning into the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis during the evening rush...

2017年6月29日 · Thirteen people died and 145 were injured when the bridge on Interstate 35 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, gave way during rush hour on August 1st, 2007. After the disaster, some people claimed to have seen a Mothman-like creature near the …

The I-35W (Interstate 35 West) bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis opened to traffic in 1967. Thousands of vehicles drove across it every day, but no one imagined that a mistake in the bridge’s design, made over forty years prior, would have such disastrous consequences on one summer evening in August of 2007.

2009年7月31日 · Vehicles rested on a collapsed section of the I-35W bridge after it fell into the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, 2007. It's been two years since the collapse of the I- 35W bridge in downtown...

Thirteen people died and 145 more were injured in the Aug. 1, 2007 structure collapse.

2009年8月2日 · ROSEMOUNT, Minn. (AP) Two years after the busy Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people, even Minnesotans have largely moved on. A new...

2009年11月23日 · The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed suddenly on August 1, 2007. This note briefly summarizes an analysis based on original design drawings, an investigation of material evidence provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure.