Bridges, By the Numbers

Minnesota currently has more than 3,300 bridges older than the I-35W bridge that collapsed Wednesday.

Minnesota has 1,500 bridges listed as either structurally deficient or obsolete. (via Poynter)

According to the Star Tribune, there are currently four dead, 79 injured and 20 missing in this catastrophe.

There have been eight famous bridge collapses in the last 100 years, including this memorable film of “Galloping Gertie.” (See here for more bridge disasters.)

Currently, there are nearly 2,600 news hits and nearly 1,700 blog hits for “bridge collapse+Minnesota”.

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