A barge allided with a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a smaller and separate island that is home to a university, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.
This from wdbj7.com.
A barge hit a bridge in Galveston TX partially collapsing a rail line and closing road to small island.
David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District, said:
The bridge that leads to Pelican Island, north of Galveston, was struck by the barge around 9:50 a.m. when a tugboat backing out of Texas International Terminals, a fuel storage operator next to the bridge, lost control of two barges it was pushing.
Further:
The current was very bad,…
