The bridge has survived the natural hazards of the elements, war, fire, and floods, as well as injuries incident to heavy traffic, for more than a hundred years.

Yasna 19 ( which has only survived in a Sassanid era ( 226 – 650 CE ) Zend commentary on the Ahuna Vairya invocation ), prescribes a Path to Judgement known as the Chinvat Peretum or Chinvat bridge ( cf: As-Sirāt in Islam ), which all souls had to cross, and judgement ( over thoughts, words, deeds performed during a lifetime ) was passed as they were doing so.

The train driver, second man, and the motorists driving on the fallen bridge all survived.

The bridge was destroyed, but the fortified camp, which at the time was the most forward Roman military outpost in the Po Valley, somehow survived the long Second Punic War, and gradually evolved into a garrison town.

However, the bridge – being the first of its kind fabricated from cast iron, and one of the few which have survived to the present day – remains an important symbol representative of the dawn of the industrial age.

The bridge is the only all white bridge in the county, the only bridge to have survived the transition from whitewashing to the red color commonly used in barns throughout the county.

In 1885, a 22-year-old woman named Sarah Ann Henley survived a fall from the bridge when her billowing skirts acted as a parachute ; she subsequently lived into her eighties.

More than 200 incidents of people jumping or falling from the bridge have taken place since it was opened in 1981 ; only five have survived.

The bridge which crosses and constrains the millpond was constructed to house a tide mill, originally granted to the Knight's Templars in 1199 which survived until it was burnt down in 1956.

The new bridge survived the floods in 1903 that destroyed many bridges ( including the nearby Riverton-Belvidere Bridge ) along the Delaware and continued to prosper.

A custom which survived until 1840 obliged the lord of Fordingbridge during one summer month known as " fence month " to keep the bridge guarded and arrest anyone found taking venison from the New Forest.

One of the teachers who survived the tsunami attack at the bridge later committed suicide.

Another concept, an Ice Age land bridge between the Falkland Islands and South America that enabled the species ' ancestors to traverse the gap, appears quite improbable, and in the opinion of Berta it was unlikely that its ancestors could have survived the last Ice Age on the Falklands.

Slater suggests the population may have arrived on icebergs or an ice bridge, and may in fact have survived the ice age on the islands.

The bridge also appears to have survived the significant December 1934 flood as it is mentioned in a news article in The Argus newspaper in February 1935.

The bridge also appears to have survived the significant December 1934 flood as it is mentioned in a news article in The Argus newspaper in February 1935.

According to compilations from various media reports as of 2009, at least 207 people have committed suicide by jumping from the center span into the waters of Tampa Bay since the opening of the new bridge in 1987, and an estimated 34 others have tried, but survived.

In 1848 the railroad built the Starrucca Viaduct, a stone railroad bridge over Starrucca Creek in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania which has survived and is still in use today.

At Savignano sul Rubicone a Roman bridge survived until it was demolished as recently as World War II.

She and Cliffjumper leave, wondering if Shockwave survived the destruction of the space bridge, before going to meet with Optimus.

Despite these problems, the span survived into the early 20th century, when it was replaced by the current bridge.

( Pointer jumped off the bridge, but survived the fall.

On September 13, 1979, Hurricane Frederic entered the bay with winds reaching, destroying the bridge to Dauphin Island.

Unlike many other bridges in the county the bridge withstood Hurricane Agnes, despite being filled with 6-and-a-half feet of water.

The Bay bridge on US Highway 90, damaged by Hurricane Katrina

The bridge was completed in 1962, and damaged in 1969 by Hurricane Camille.

The bridge ruins, capturing the breathtaking results of the force of Hurricane Katrina, had become a popular spot of photographers both professional and amateur.

Despite damage from Hurricane Carla, a bridge linking Seabrook and Kemah was completed in 1961.

The Hurricane of 1938 did considerable damage to the town and destroyed the old covered bridge over the Chicopee River on Cottage Ave. A steel bridge rests there today.

The covered bridge at Columbia was destroyed during Hurricane Diane the next August.

In September 2001, the Bridge La Laguna ( The lagoon ) was rebuilt and inaugurated, the old bridge ( a 50 years old structure ) was badly damaged in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch and was demolished.

McKinney was the only member of Congress to participate in a march across the Crescent City Connection Bridge on November 7, 2005, to protest what had happened on that bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

South of the Sakonnet River Bridge, in the area known as The Hummocks and Island Park, is the site of the Stone Bridge, built in 1907 on the site of an earlier wooden bridge and destroyed by Hurricane Carol in 1954.

* Vermont Route 9-" Woodford Bridge " in Woodford Hollow ( washed away in flood waters related to Hurricane Irene in August 2011 ), and another bridge east of downtown Bennington

* Hunt Street foot bridge ( washed away in flood waters related to Hurricane Irene in August 2011 )

Image: Hawker Hurricane attack bridge in Burma. jpg | A Hawker Hurricane Mark Mk. IIC of No. 42 Squadron RAF based at Kangla, Burma, diving to attack a bridge near a small Burmese settlement on the Tiddim Road

Examples reported in the media where this has occurred include the September 11 attacks, the 2006 Hawaii earthquake, the 2003 Northeast blackouts, Hurricane Katrina, the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse, the 2010 Chile earthquake and the Dawson College shooting.

The highway's bridge over Hurricane Gulch.

After Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, videos collected showed damage to the bridge.

This bridge was badly damaged by the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, and subsequently refurbished by the United States Federal Government as an automobile highway bridge.

Coburn's amendment would have transferred funding from the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to rebuild Louisiana's " Twin Spans " bridge, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.