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The Heron Road Bridge is a bridge in Ottawa Canada. It connects Baseline Road and Heron Road passing over both the Rideau River and the Rideau Canal just south of Carleton University. The bridge was built in 1966, and its construction saw one of the worst accidents in Ottawa history. On August 10, 1966 the partially completed bridge collapsed, killing nine workers and injuring another fifty-five. An investigation later found that the design had been faulty. Just to the east of the bridge, there is today a plaque honouring the nine workers killed.
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