Government failure?

As the main topic in the news since it happened last week the bridge collapse in Minnesota has spawned something interesting.
Throughout the news reports their have been little snippets of blame placed on the government, both state and federal.
I truly wonder if either did anything wrong?

A bridge has never spontaneously collapsed before, how was either level of government supposed to know such a thing could happen. Since the idea seemed rather distant until last week how can anyone be blamed. The idea of a bridge collapsing here in Michigan seems as distant today as it did last week, before it was of concern. So in the inevitability of increased DOT funds I wonder if it will make any difference. I assume it will just be done out of necessity to show that the bureaucrats care that much.

My justification is that nobody could have foreseen this event and that is how things will continue in the future. Example; here in Michigan the joke is that we have two seasons, winter and construction. This joke defines the annual suffering of having half of our roads and highways lined with orange barrels from memorial day to labor day. With that in mind no Michiganian would ever suspect a bridge would collapse in Michigan. Why? Well let me assure you it's not because of our superior methods of roadwork. It would be a complete suprise because they're always working on the roads, so how could any of them be in disrepair(at least enough to collapse) when they're worked on almost constantly. And i'm tempted just enough to say that the situation in Minnesota was probably not much different.