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  • New Analysis Confirms Why The Skagit River Bridge Collapsed

    New Analysis Confirms Why The Skagit River Bridge Collapsed

    In May 2013, a bridge spanning the Skagit River along Interstate 5 in Washington state catastrophically collapsed, after an oversized trailer clipped one of the bridge’s cross beams. A new analysis by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign confirms the many factors that contributed to the collapse, and offers recommendations for how…