The I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis comes to mind for me locally. Horrifying stuff.
Being from Seattle, it reminds me of the loss of the Spokane Street bridge (West Seattle Freeway) in 1978 ... which was referred to as “When the Ship hit the Span”. It took 6 years to deconstruct the rubble and build a new bridge. At the time it was the State of Washington’s most traveled roadway.
The funny thing was that in the decade leading up to the accident, there was a push to replace the bridge and long story short, there was a scandal involving bribes and the project was killed. In 1977 a federal highway regulator stated “short of a tug knocking it down ... (the project is dead). A year later, it was not a tug, but an ocean-going ship ... the Chavez.
But the story gets better. The pilot of the Chavez was found negligent. His name was Rolf Neslund. Two years later he disappeared, and his wife claimed he returned to Norway. However, he was never found ... and shortly before his disappearance, his wife purchased an industrial-sized wood chipper. She made it very clear in the years leading up to his disappearance how badly he embarrassed her and their name was permanently tarnished. With only circumstantial evidence, she was convicted of murder and died in prison.