{"id":489,"date":"2026-04-18T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/bridge-collapse-in-west-virginia-raises-questions-about-infrastructure-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:01:09","slug":"bridge-collapse-in-west-virginia-raises-questions-about-infrastructure-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/bridge-collapse-in-west-virginia-raises-questions-about-infrastructure-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Collapse in West Virginia Raises Questions About Infrastructure Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TITLE: Bridge Collapse in West Virginia Raises Questions About Infrastructure Safety A loud crash echoed through the streets of Wheeling, West Virginia, on Wednesday as a bridge suddenly gave way, sending three workers tumbling to the ground below.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews rushed to the scene, but the damage was already done \u2014 two of the injured were hospitalized with serious injuries, while the third suffered minor wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sparked an immediate investigation into the cause of the collapse and raised concerns about the state of aging infrastructure across the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Multiple news outlets<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TITLE: Bridge Collapse in West Virginia Raises Questions About Infrastructure Safety A loud crash echoed through the streets of Wheeling, West Virginia, on Wednesday as a bridge suddenly gave way, sending three workers tumbling to the ground below. Emergency crews rushed to the scene, but the damage was already done \u2014 two of the injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}