Twenty-three years ago, four loaded barges crashed into the support columns of South Padre Island’s Queen Isabella Causeway, causing an 80-foot span of the bridge to collapse into the Laguna ...

Four days after 9/11, a towing barge crashed into the Queen Isabella Causeway, killing eight people. ... They packed up the boat and made their way out into the water around 10 p.m.

FILE - A section of the Queen Isabella Causeway is shown missing as crews break from their search and rescue due to a stormm in Port Isabella, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001.

Eight people died when the Queen Isabella Causeway collapsed. It's a bridge that connects the mainland town of Port Isabel with South Padre Island at the tip of Texas. That accident happened 20 ...

Sep. 15—The Queen Isabella Causeway, as it was known then, suffered catastrophic damage when an out-of-control towboat and barge slammed into it 20 years ago on Sept. 15, 2001. Occurring just ...

The Queen Isabella Causeway in Texas, a railroad bridge in Alabama and the Sunshine Skyway in Tampa are among several major bridge collapses in U.S. history.

Wednesday is the 3rd anniversary of the deadly collapse of what's now known as the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway.

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