The Interstate 90 Grand River bridges are two steel girder bridges in Lake County, Ohio, on the Leroy Township–Perry Township boundary southwest of Madison, carrying Interstate 90 (I-90) over the Grand River.
[1] On May 24, 1996, a gusset plate failed on the eastbound span, similar to the later failure on the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2007, prompting the Ohio Department of Transportation to close the bridge later that day and divert traffic; the cause originally was attributed to an overloaded semi-trailer truck.
With the roads near the east end of the detour not equipped to carry the increased traffic, police officers from the village of Madison were dispatched to three intersections for traffic control.
[4] The eastbound span was repaired throughout the rest of the year and reopened on November 4.
[5][6] In a project authorized in 2002[1] and lasting from March 2007 to July 2010,[7] the old bridges were demolished.