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The Silver Bridge, which connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed at around 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 15, 1967. According to a press release […] ...
The Silver Bridge was an eye bar-chain suspension bridge that was built in 1928 and connected Point Pleasant to Gallipolis, Ohio. On December 15, 1967, the bridge collapsed due to the failure of a ...
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. -- Tuesday marks the 48th anniversary of the Silver Bridge collapse, killing 46 people and changing a small West Virginia town forever. It happened Dec., 15, 1967 during rush ...
Maybe it was a coincidence that the inspection and partial closure of the East End bridge across the Ohio River wrapped up a few days before the 57th anniversary of the Silver Bridge disaster ...
MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A tractor-trailer truck rollover early Monday morning has shut down the Silver Bridge in the Point Pleasant area, dispatchers said. According to Mason County ...
The West Virginia Department of Transportation remembered those who lost their lives on Dec. 15, 1967, in the Silver Bridge disaster. Sunday marks the 57th anniversary of the collapse that took ...