The Oklahoma State Patrol said Saturday that it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over Arkansas River.
Troopers closed South U.S. Highway 59 about 1:25 p.m. after receiving word of the incident and diverted traffic from the area, state patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart said. 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 age of barges has begun. Humanity has a new enemy.
First the great emu war and now this
“Begun the Barge Wars have.” -Yoda or some dude named Scott in a Yoda voice.
Go to the Degobah system. Seek Scott.
I imagine minor bridge collisions are quite common.
French here, yeah it kinda is. Or at least it’s rare but not exceptional I guess, at least for fluvial transport (barges and other similar types of ships)
It’s usually not that bad, and at most requires some reinforcement of the bridge, or at least the removal of some parts of the ship that were embedded in the bridge example here in France.
Must be client specific. It’s fine on Voyager.
Woops yeah, fixed it. I think some spacing between the parenthesis and the link would have also worked
If another bridge collapsed from a collision this soon after the FSK bridge, id be sus
But yeah, this is just a “fender bender” it seems
This is likely an “abundance of caution” thing.
Is this what we’re doing to get our bridges fixed? We’re throwing boats at them?
I’m sure some right winger is going to refer to Salisaw mayor Ernie Martens as a DEI mayor over this. /s
