68 Bridges Need Inspections For Collapse Risk, NTSB Warns

The National Transportation Safety Board is informing that 68 bridges successful 19 states should beryllium inspected for their hazard of illness if a vas were to collide with them. The recommendations travel successful the aftermath of the probe into the illness of the Francis Scott Key Bridge past twelvemonth and are based connected the information that the bridges were built earlier 1991, erstwhile caller guidelines were enactment into place. Those guidelines came aft the deadly 1980 illness of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge crossed Florida’s Tampa Bay, which happened erstwhile a freighter deed it successful stormy weather. The span that replaced that 1 is connected the NTSB’s caller list. Others see San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and some the Brooklyn Bridge and George Washington Bridge successful New York City. The NTSB notes the bridges aren’t needfully successful danger, but alternatively that their hazard is unknown.