BRKG Another one! Large barge crashed into the Arkansas River bridge, causing damage to both the ship and the bridge pillar Sallisaw | Oklahoma

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#BREAKING: A large barge crashed into the Arkansas River bridge, causing damage to both the ship and the bridge pillar

#Sallisaw | #Oklahoma

Earlier this evening, just before 1:30 p.m., a large barge crashed into and struck the Arkansas River bridge at the Kerr Reservoir in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, forcing authorities to immediately close the bridge. Engineers from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation conducted an inspection and found that the bridge pillars had sustained some damage, but nothing severe or major. Around two hours later, they determined that it was safe to reopen the bridge. Fortunately, no one was injured; only the barge sustained heavy damage to the front.

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wobble

wobble

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33dInd said:
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That’s twice now in Oklahoma these last ten years
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Not long after 9-11, this one:

[BRKNG] Bridge Collapse in Eastern Oklahoma

CNN is reporting that a barge has hit and apparently collapsed a bridge near Webber's Falls in eastern Oklahoma. This bridge is allegedly the I-40 bridge and was full of traffic. People and vehicles have gone into the water. A state of emergency has been declared and diving operations are...
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Walrus

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My civil engineer colleague lives around Sallisaw. He was raised as a Corps of Engineers brat and intended to go to work for them after graduation, but Daddy Exxon waved way more money in front of him than the gooberment did. Anyway, he was aware of this and said it was simply pilot error - trying to go through way too fast. Here is the comment he posted to me in an email and on freerepublic (hopefully this doesn't violate some rule of which I'm presently unaware):

The bridge deal here? The guy was way way too fast coming into the lock approach dike and should have not been anywhere near that side of the channel. He hit hard enough to bust the wires holding the tow together. That side of the channel where he hit the bridge is on the gate and power house side and the out draft from the two of those will push you to the right ascending bank if anything, the opposite direction of where this guy went. That was also a fuel tow going up empty to collect heavy bunker fuel most likely. Whoever was at the helm should be a lot better at his job and is in a hell of a lot of trouble or should be. There was almost no wind at all today.

I wrote this on FR:

THAT is just a special kind of stupid, don't care, lack of skill on the sticks. You have to work at it to hit that bridge on that side coming upbound into the lock approach. And today was slack water. The bridge is below the dam.
I've decked many times while my Dad was at the helm coming into that approach both ways. It is the wind that gets you coming down bound.
 
Weps

Weps

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Two things are at play here;

1.) "Frequency illusion"; where incidents that went previously unnoticed by the public at large, but occur with some regularity become hyper-fixated upon. By simple virtue of statistics, accidents are going to happen.

An example of this is in-flight accidents/incidents, by simple statistics alone we're going to see a given number of incidents/accidents in a given calendar year; there are 10M+ scheduled commercial flights per year, that doesn't include military flights, ad-hoc flights, cargo/parcel/mail flights, private aircraft, etc... so we're going to see some level of in-flight incidents/accidents occur just because of the sheer volume of flights annually.

However, with DEI initiatives that have resulted in a slew of extremely bad and high profile incidents, so now all in-flight incidents are looked at with hyper-awareness, this is where the second comes into play;

2.) The marrying of incompetence and 50+ years of neglected infrastructure; resulting in a rapid increase of catastrophic incidents/accidents.

Waterborne incidents/accidents (like airborne) occur quite frequently, to give an idea of how frequent; on March 8th we had 10 loaded coal barges break-free from their tug and float down the Ohio, getting stuck on the McAlpine Dam and under the old L&I rail bridge; last year on March 28th we had four barges break free of their tug and get stuck on the same dam, but those barges were carrying methanol.

2024: Barge Dam Incident: 10 coal barges break loose on Ohio River near McAlpine Lock and Dam Friday

2023 Barge Dam Incident: Tow service begins 'dangerous' salvage operation of barges stuck on Ohio River

To make things more interesting; we just had a semi-truck hanging off the Clark Memorial Bridge just last month; Kentucky semi-truck driver dangling from bridge had been struck by an oncoming vehicle, mayor says
 
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