Barge hits bridge in Oklahoma simply days after Baltimore tragedy

A freeway in Oklahoma was briefly shut on Saturday after a barge struck a bridge over the Arkansas River, simply days after the tragic collision in Maryland.

State patrol troopers closed US Freeway 59 about 1:25 pm after receiving phrase of the incident and diverted site visitors from the world, spokesperson Sarah Stewart stated.

The bridge, which crosses the Arkansas River the place it enters the Robert S Kerr Reservoir, was later inspected and the freeway reopened to site visitors round 4 pm.

“Engineers inspected the construction and located it secure to reopen,” the Oklahoma Division of Transportation stated in an e-mail.

There have been no stories of accidents on the freeway or the barge, and the reason for the collision stays unknown.

The incident got here as engineers in Baltimore started the prolonged technique of eradicating elements of the Francis Scott Key bridge from the Patapsco River.

4 development employees stay lacking, presumed lifeless, after the Dali cargo ship smashed into the bridge within the early hours of Tuesday.

Restoration and salvage operations are underway, although search missions for the remaining our bodies have been paused as a result of treacherous situations.

Over the previous a number of days, huge cranes have arrived in Baltimore to assist clear the wreckage, which officers say is an important step earlier than restoration efforts to search out the lacking development employees and re-open the port.

One of many cranes, the Chesapeake 1000, is able to lifting 1,000 tonnes — however the bridge is estimated to weigh round three or 4 occasions that, so it is going to have to be reduce into sections,

On Saturday, Maryland Governor Wes Moore stated search operations for the our bodies of the lacking employees would resume as quickly as situations improved.