Final Up to date: March 31, 2024, 16:16 IST
A boater takes a photograph of a barge which struck a bridge on the Arkansas River in Sallisaw, Ark., Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP)
There have been no studies of accidents on the freeway or the barge
The State Patrol within the US state of Oklahoma stated Saturday that it closed a freeway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over the Arkansas River.
Troopers closed South US Freeway 59 about 1:25 pm after receiving phrase of the incident and diverted site visitors from the realm, state patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart stated.
But One other Bridge Bashed By A Ship In The USAThis time it was a barge crashing into the Arkansas River bridge, inflicting harm to each the vessel and the bridge pillars.
In contrast to the #BaltimoreBridgeCollapse, this time the bridge held, however site visitors was closed for 2 hours… pic.twitter.com/NbROQ35Y29
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The bridge, which crosses the Arkansas River the place it enters the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, will stay closed till it may be inspected, she stated. There have been no studies of accidents on the freeway or the barge, Stewart stated. It was not instantly identified what triggered the barge to hit the bridge.
The information got here as engineers labored Saturday to elevate a bit of twisted metal from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland after it crumpled into the Patapsco River as an enormous cargo ship crashed into one in all its important helps.
The metal truss bridge collapsed early on Tuesday morning, killing six street employees, when an enormous container ship misplaced energy and crashed right into a assist pylon. A lot of the span crashed into the Patapsco River, blocking the Port of Baltimore’s delivery channel.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore advised a information convention {that a} part of the bridge’s metal superstructure north of the crash web site could be reduce into a chunk that could possibly be lifted by crane onto a barge and delivered to the close by Tradepoint Atlantic web site at Sparrows Level. “It will finally enable us to open up a brief restricted channel that may assist us to get extra vessels within the water across the web site of the collapse,” Moore stated.
(With company inputs)
