POINT PLEASANT, WV (WVNS) — The West Virginia Department of Transportation remembers how bridge safety standards were affected by those lost during the Silver Bridge Collapse in 1967. The Silver ...

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 ...

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.