POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Fifty-eight years after the deadliest bridge collapse in United States history, for J.O. Miller, it still feels like yesterday. “There’s nothing I can do about it,” ...
Monday marks the 58th anniversary of the tragic Silver Bridge Collapse, and everyone, from the governor and the West Virginia Department of Transportation to the community at large, is remembering the ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia state leaders on Monday acknowledged the 58th anniversary of the Silver Bridge collapse, while reinforcing the national safety changes that followed the tragedy. “The ...
Retired truck driver Bill Needham poses at his home in Asheboro, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Needham was waiting to die in the frigid Ohio River after a bridge collapse in West Virginia 50 years ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed during the evening rush hour in Point Pleasant. Cars dropped into the Ohio River below, 46 people died. Investigators later ...