The State Patrol in the US state of Oklahoma said Saturday that it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over the Arkansas River.
Troopers closed South US Highway 59 about 1:25 pm after receiving word of the incident and diverted traffic from the area, state patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart said.
Yet Another Bridge Bashed By A Ship In The USAThis time it was a barge crashing into the Arkansas River bridge, causing damage to both the vessel and the bridge pillars.
Unlike the #BaltimoreBridgeCollapse, this time the bridge held, but traffic was closed for two hours… pic.twitter.com/NbROQ35Y29
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The bridge, which crosses the Arkansas River where it enters the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, will remain closed until it can be inspected, she said. There were no reports of injuries on the highway or the barge, Stewart said. It was not immediately known what caused the barge to hit the bridge.
The news came as engineers worked Saturday to lift a section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland after it crumpled into the Patapsco River as a massive cargo ship crashed into one of its main supports.
The steel truss bridge collapsed early on Tuesday morning, killing six road workers, when a massive container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon. Much of the span crashed into the Patapsco River, blocking the Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore told a news conference that a section of the bridge’s steel superstructure north of the crash site would be cut into a piece that could be lifted by crane onto a barge and brought to the nearby Tradepoint Atlantic site at Sparrows Point. “This will eventually allow us to open up a temporary restricted channel that will help us to get more vessels in the water around the site of the collapse,” Moore said.
(With agency inputs)
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