A large barge crashed into the Pelican Island Bridge in Texas Wednesday morning causing a section of the bridge, including railroad tracks, to smash down onto the barge, Fox 7 Austin reports.
A large barge crashed into the Pelican Island Bridge in Texas on Wednesday, causing a section of the bridge, including railroad tracks, to smash down onto the barge, Fox 7 Austin reports. Officials say there were no reports of injuries in the collision that occurred around 10 a.m. However, Galveston County Judge Mark Henry says two crew members did go overboard but were recovered from the water, Fox 7 Austin reports.
The incident comes about six weeks after the tragic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, when a Sri Lanka-bound container ship hit the structure, causing it to fall into the Baltimore harbor, killing six construction workers. The disaster in Baltimore, and a spate of recent incidents involving barges and bridges has highlighted the vulnerability of bridges to strikes. Just last Thursday, a barge struck the Fort Madison Bridge in Iowa and later sank in the Mississippi River.
Meanwhile, last month, more than two dozen river barges broke loose from their moorings and floated down the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, striking one bridge that had already been preemptively closed and damaging a marina, officials said. The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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