The failures were avoidable ... have been school buses full of kids and countless commuters walking, biking or rolling across the bridge on the morning of the collapse,” Homendy said.

T-L Photo/KIM NORTH BARE STEEL girders are visible on the west side of Ohio 7 in Martins Ferry where the Ohio Department of Transportation is removing a portion of a pedestrian bridge that for decades ...

Police said that shortly before 11:20 a.m., a 43-year-old man was walking on the westbound side of the bridge and began to cross the bridge by the off-ramp for Center Street. A gold 2012 Chrysler ...