32 snapped when stress meant to simulate the lateral motion of a large earthquake was introduced, the Sacramento Bee reported
Obviously the stress test standards are much too rigid. We need to have the contractors involved investigate themselves and report back to the blue ribbon committee on bridge construction.
Be assured, this won’t ever happen again.
I’ll have to verify, but from what I’d originally heard, they snapped merely from the load of being torqued to spec and setting for a while.