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    Bridge demolition video makes spectacular viewing

    Spectacular footage showing a 1,584-ft-long bridge being demolished with explosives has surfaced on the web.

    Following a series of controlled blasts, the 83-year-old structure linking Ohio and West Virginia was successfully brought down using 70kg of explosives in just a few seconds on Tuesday.

    The explosives were strategically placed in 136 places on the bridge.



    Ohio River’s Fort Steuben Bridge closed in 2009. It was destroyed after local safety officials noticed the bridge was significantly deteriorating.

    The video, captured by local authorities in Steubenville, Ohio, was slowed down to capture the momentous event.

     
    • Chris  •  Uxbridge, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      "Bridge to nowhere felled by blast," so which state is nowhere, Ohio or West Virginia?
      • richard 3 mths ago
        Good point.
      • Andrew 3 mths ago
        There is a song that starts: "Saturday night in Toledo Ohio is like being nowhere at all". So Ohio is probably nowhere or it could be that the song is likening Toledo to West Virginia in which case that might be nowhere.....
      • John 3 mths ago
        Depends whether you live in Ohio or West Virginia!
    • curry up  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Fred Dibnah would have loved that
    • Jamiea  •  3 mths ago
      Hope someone told the satnav makers...
      • KIRSTY 3 mths ago
        It's been closed since 2009......
      • JAMES 3 mths ago
        and?
      • Jamiea 3 mths ago
        A 'joke', Kristy...
    • peter  •  3 mths ago
      "your only supposed to blow the BLOODY doors off !".
      • Lin 3 mths ago
        priceless!
      • Mark 3 mths ago
        ...for everything else there's Mastercard
      • Ben C 3 mths ago
        No Peter, it's the bloody DOORS off.
    • PDC  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Metal theft has reached new height's.
      • Les 3 mths ago
        More lows more like
    • ANDREW G  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      So an 83 yr old bridge is dangerous,funny how we have bridges hundreds of years old and they are still standing i.e the brick railway bridge over the thames @maidenhead still taking 125 mph trains courtesy of the brilliant I K Brunel
    • Sir Percy Vere  •  3 mths ago
      I hope they've planned for an alternative river crossing.
      Our Home Office would demolish the bridge and then ask for rebuild tenders next year - it would be a private toll bridge.
    • Chris  •  3 mths ago
      They should've asked if anyone in Hollywood wanted to come and film this for a movie?
    • Kenny  •  Edinburgh, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      I hope somebody told Tom Tom.
    • Keith  •  3 mths ago
      I wonder how they are going to get it all out of the river?
    • DAVID  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Viewing ruined by b*****y adverts and terrible editing - again!!!!
    • KT  •  Milton Keynes, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Dam Chuck......it's the wrong bridge!
    • CHOCOL8  •  Hull, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      I hope no fish were squashed.
    • Aqua2021  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      So what happens to all the debris left laying around?
    • CHESTNUTS  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      what happened to all the scrap
    • Thaddeus  •  Tokyo, Japan  •  3 mths ago
      Blowing stuff up is one thing the yanks do really well
    • Francis  •  3 mths ago
      brilliant bit of work demolition as an art form !!!
    • STUART  •  Brighton, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      70kg my arze.. in 136 places.. at that distance you would not see the flash with less than 1 kg per charge spread over 1584 feet
    • ALEXANDER  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      GOOD SHOW NOW FOR THE SCRAPP DEALERS
    • FRANK  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Yanks attempt London/Sydney style firework display!
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