The authority performed the service about six times a year.The Maryland Transportation Authority previously offered a similar service for crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, but that role is now filled by private companies.The Mackinac Bridge Authority, which oversees the Mackinac Bridge connecting Michigans Upper and Lower peninsulas, will drive needy gephyrophobiacs cars across the bridge for a nominal fee. Some one thousand drivers take advantage of this program annually. Leslie Ann Pluhar had her Yugo blown off the bridge in 1989. Later investigation concluded she had stopped her car over the open steel grating on the bridges span and that a gust of wind blowing through the grating pushed her vehicle off the bridge, but this assertion is not supported by recorded wind speed measurements taken on and around the bridge at the time of the accident. In media
Gephyrophobia is the main plot in "The Bridge" episode of The Middle. The character Brick is plagued by the phobia. In 1965s A Charlie Brown Christmas, Lucy references gephyrophobia (albeit with a slight mispronunciation) when attempting to diagnose Charlie Browns problems at her psychiatric help stand. See also
Galloping Gertie
List of bridge disasters
List of structural failures and collapses
List of phobias


== References ==
Urinary bladder disease includes urinary bladder inflammation such as cystitis, bladder rupture and bladder obstruction (tamponade). Cystitis is common, sometimes referred to as urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by bacteria, bladder rupture occurs when the bladder is overfilled and not emptied while bladder tamponade is a result of blood clot formation near the bladder outlet. Cystitis
Cystitis is a urinary bladder inflammation that results from any one of a number of distinct syndromes. It is most commonly caused by a bacterial infection in which case it is referred to as a urinary tract infection. Bladder trauma
Bladder rupture (rupture of bladder, N32.4) may occur if the bladder is overfilled and not emptied. This can occur in the case of binge drinkers who have consumed large quantities of fluids, but are not conscious of the need to urinate due to stupor. This condition is very rare in women, but does occur. Signs and symptoms include localized pain and uraemia (poisoning due to reabsorbed waste). Intra- and extraperitoneal rupture
Bladder rupture is divided into intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal rupture, with the latter encompassing 85% of post-traumatic bladder rupture. Intraperitoneal rupture is both more rare and associated with greater morbidity, requiring surgical repair due to the risk of non-healing and gram negative sepsis. Bladder tamponade
Bladder tamponade is obstruction of the bladder outlet due to heavy blood clot formation within it. It generally requires surgery. Such heavy bleeding is usually due to bladder cancer. See also
Underactive bladder
Overactive bladder

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http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/topics/bladder.asp