ARCUS Atlas record
Bridge over Dora Baltea river
Total collapse of a railway bridge over the Dora Baltea river near Settimo Vittone (Torino) on 13-16 October 2000, as part of the catastrophic alluvione. Documented in the ARPA Piemonte official report (Ivrea-Aosta railway area). Total collapse during the catastrophic alluvione of 13-16 October 2000 that struck over 50% of Piemonte, causing more than 1,800 documented damage events. The ARPA Piemonte report (2003) explicitly documents multiple bridge collapses across the Stura di Lanzo, Orco, Chisone, Dora Riparia, Dora Baltea and Po basins. The event is comparable in scale to the 1994 alluvione del Piemonte. No fatalities directly attributed to this specific collapse. Rapporto d'evento Regione Piemonte - Direzione Servizi Tecnici di Prevenzione (aprile 2001): asportato il ponte ferroviario della linea Torino-Aosta a Settimo Vittone durante l'esondazione della Dora Baltea, che ha sovrappassato la SS26 per ~1 km. [Il database Polimi (D'Angelo et al. 2025, S3, record P005, dec=1) classifica invece il processo come: erosione laterale di sponda.]
- ARCUS ID
- IT00.10.19
- Date
- 2000-10-13
- Municipality
- Settimo Vittone
- Province
- Ivrea
- Region
- Piemonte
- Coordinates
- 45.5383, 7.8335 · exact location
- Crossing
- Dora Baltea river
- Use
- Railway
- Severity
- TC
- Structural type
- Truss
- Material
- Steel
- Cause category
- Natural
- Specific cause
- Hydraulic
- Failure trigger
- Flood
- Failure process
- Overtopping / hydrodynamic action
- Component involved
- Entire structure
- Cause evidence
- Documented
- Source confidence
- High
- Victims
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
Documentary sources (3)
- Evento alluvionale regionale 13-16 ottobre 2000 – monografia ufficiale (Official/Technical · ARPA Piemonte · 2002-10-16)
- 10 anni fa alluvione Nord-Ovest, fu inferno d'acqua – Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta (News · ANSA · 2010-10-13)
- Bridge collapses in Italy across the 21st century: survey and statistical analysis (Scientific · Journal Paper · 2025-01-01)