Oklahoma, barge collides with bridge: Baltimore's nightmare returns | EUROtoday
A barge crashed right into a bridge within the US state of Oklahoma. This was reported by native authorities, specifying that the accident prompted no casualties and visitors was first blocked after which reopened after security checks. According to what the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (Okdot) printed on its X account, US Highway 59 was closed on the Arkansas River south of Sollisaw as a result of collision. The causes of the accident are at present unknown. Only final Tuesday, a service provider ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, inflicting it to break down, an accident during which six development employees are nonetheless lacking.
On May 26, 2002, in the identical Arkansas River, additionally in Oklahoma, 14 folks died and eleven have been injured when one other bridge collapsed, inflicting ten automobiles to fall into the water after a tugboat pushing two barges hit a pylon of the construction alongside the river. Highway I 40, a very powerful within the Midwest state. In that case it was an sickness on the a part of the tugboat captain that prompted the accident.
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