Sentence examples for collapse of a highway from inspiring English sources

The collapse of a highway flyover in 2006 crushed five people.

American cities have suffered a rash of recent infrastructure calamities, from the failure of the New Orleans levees to the collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis, to a fatal crash on Washington, DC's (generally impressive) metro system.

The accusations followed several high-profile infrastructure failures, including the collapse of a highway overpass, and earlier this year it seemed likely that Mr. Charest's nine years as premier would soon end.

A huge sinkhole has caused the collapse of a highway in the US state of Ohio.

After the collapse of a highway bridge in the United States, women more actively utilized the Internet than men and found television more useful (Spence et al. 2010).

Local officials reported road closures and the partial collapse of a highway.

The deadly collapse of a Minnesota highway bridge in August shined a light on the poor state of the nation's bridges, many thousands of which are "structurally deficient" by federal standards.

Then, on Tuesday morning, members of an F.B.I. team — divers who had searched for wreckage from the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 and the collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Minnesota in 2007 — put a different type of sonar device to work.

The total collapse of the highway overpass in Arifiye, during the Kocaeli earthquake, was investigated.

This bridge can be considered as representative of a highway overpass or even a highway bridge.

Highway 89 was created out of a highway rerouting in the late 1930s.