Some case studies of highway bridges involved in accidents. Paper prepared for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1973.

Accident reports, field evaluation, questionnaire replies, and other data sources were used to conduct a general study of accidents involving highway bridges in Virginia. Several geometric type characteristics were found to predominate at many of the arterial and primary system bridges investigated. Some of the more salient factors were pavement transitions on bridge approaches, roadway curvature, and combinations of these and other geometric factors.