Investigators are using a high tech 3-D video camera to review the scene and attempt to pinpoint where the bridge failure began.

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After all, what is it worth being able to drive across bridges without fear of plunging to certain death? (By my calculations our bridge failure rate is one in three hundred and fifty thousand).

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"Gusset plates have been around a long time, and they've been a reliable feature, and we have no indication that they've ever been part of a suspect bridge problem or a bridge failure before, " Capka said.

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Merely to blow the bridge is a failure.

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Analysts said the ruling Awami League was under pressure as failure to secure funding for the bridge would cost the party votes at elections, likely to be held in late 2013.

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She could also borrow bridge financing from the Treasury to cover for the time lapse between a bank failure and the sale of its assets.

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"Failure" was defined as anything from collapse to damage so serious the bridge had to be closed.

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Arsenal paid the price for their failure to take the chances they created in periods of domination at Stamford Bridge - and for their continuing inability to contain Drogba as Carlo Ancelotti's champions stretched out a four-point lead over their title rivals.

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Commuters are being urged to avoid London Bridge, one of the hotspot travel stations during the Olympics after overcrowding due to a signal failure.

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