Bridge in Oklahoma reopened after being struck by barge

5 News ^ | 3/30/24 | Spencer Bailey

[DallasBiff]

According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol, US-59 south of Sallisaw is shut down after a barge struck a bridge at the Kerr Reservoir

[DallasBiff]

I know, it happens every day, but the bridge didn't collapse like a bunch of match sticks as the Baltimore Key bridge.

[Paul R.]

I live not too far from the two US Highway bridges @ the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, the I-57 bridge across the Mississippi, and the the I-24 bridge across the Ohio River. Plus there are various railroad bridges across those Rivers, all the stuff around KY Dam and Barkley Dam, another good size bridge across the Tennessee River, the US Hwy. 51 bridge across the Ohio, another across KY Lake / Tennessee River, the bridges up @ Cape Girardeau...

Usually if a rr bridge gets whacked and closed for inspection, it's a buried news item. But if it's a highway bridge, that's a big deal -- especially when the Eggners Ferry bridge across KY Lake was hit and the shipping channel span collapsed.

In any event, I'd expect any of these that don't have protection for the supports* would be taken out by an 8 knot direct hit by a 100+ kt displacement vessel.

*I'm not sure any do have protection -- temporary closures after barge hits seem to apply to all.

[bitt]

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[waterhill]

There was an i40 bridge that was destroyed several years back. (Corrct me if I’m wrong, Oklahoma I think). They rebuilt that bridge in like 2 months. CHEMCRETE.

[oldasrocks]

Hope these bridge crashes are not giving terrorists ideas.

[suthener]

Just a reminder that things like this happen. And sometimes an accident is just an accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident

[fella]

It used to be SOP to build bumpers to protect bridge piers especially where they spanned over heavily trafficked channels.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember the one that collapsed in 2002 onI-40 near there?