They will remember the sound first—a deep, cracking groan that didn’t make sense until the pavement began to move. One moment, it was an ordinary drive; the next, the highway seemed to breathe and break, chunks of concrete tilting toward the void. Instinct took over. A slammed accelerator, a desperate swerve, the sickening awareness that a second slower might have meant freefall.As the structure gave way behind them, the scene blurred into chaos: twisted guardrails, stopped cars, people running toward screams instead of away. For many, it felt like history repeating itself, a living flashback to the 2007 Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, when rush-hour commuters plunged into the Mississippi River without warning. Standing on solid ground afterward, they felt the same mix of gratitude and fury—alive by inches, and painfully aware that in a nation of aging infrastructure, luck should never be the only safety plan.
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