Loddon Bridge disaster
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title:
Loddon Bridge disaster
text:
The Loddon Bridge disaster was a collapse of falsework during construction of a reinforced concrete deck on the Loddon Bridge of the A329(M) motorway in Berkshire, England, on 24 October 1972. It killed three people and injured ten others. It is thought that a design error led part of the falsework, transitioning between the deck and the supporting towers, to be understrength and it failed by buckling or twisting. The part-poured deck fell into the river below. The collapse was investigated by
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1972 English construction disaster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loddon_Bridge_disaster
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2023-08-17T08:27:54Z
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