"bridge fell" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has literally happened, as in: "The bridge fell into the river during the storm." You can also use it figuratively, as in: "The bridge fell between the two siblings after the argument."
When the footings slipped, the bridge fell.
The bridge fell into disrepair and closed for good in the early 1970s.
Because the bridge had structural supports beneath the road surface, vehicles were not pummeled by steel from above them when the bridge fell, as happens in some bridge collapses, said Jim Clack, this city's fire chief.
There were cracks in the bridge carrying Interstate 35 across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, but nobody paid much attention to them until the bridge fell into the river last August, killing seven people.
Drivers on the nearby Riverside-Delanco Bridge can still get a good view of the toppled giant, though the 300-ton red crane that was crushed when the bridge fell has been removed.
Most glaringly, far from rushing home to take charge personally when the bridge fell, Ms. Pitt stayed out of town for another 10 days, on a mixed business-and-personal visit to Washington and to Cambridge, Mass., before returning to Minneapolis and the mess.
"My wife saw the bridge falling and there was a big noise.
"When a bridge falls down, everyone's an engineer," he said.
It would appear erstwhile Stamford Bridge fall guy André Villas-Boas was right all along, and the whole team needs chucking in the bin and replacing.
"He's the guy that tells the taxpayer, 'I saved you $50 by not buying that bucket of paint,' and three years later the bridge falls down," said Michael D. O'Donohoe, a Conservative Party leader who served alongside Mr. Levy in the Suffolk Legislature.
We curved around Saint Mary Woolnoth, with the dead sound on the final stroke of nine, and flowed down King William Street to London Bridge, falling down falling down falling down.
