Tennessee River - The Associated Press - Bridge Collapses - Officials

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BENTON, Ky. (AP) Two spans of an southwest Kentucky fill collapsed following appearing minted by way of a cargo mail that carried aviation parts. No accidental injuries were quickly reported, express transport administrators said.

The Delta Mariner minted the key cover in the Eggner Ferry Bridge on Thursday evening at U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80, said Keith Todd, spokesman with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. State inspectors are with their approach to determine the amount of the bridge, which popped to traffic within 1932, was damaged.

"At the following point, most of us don't believe at this time there was every loss of life," Todd said.

He mentioned presently there also have been not any injuries on this phone that boat. He had been unable to declare where the dispatch had been travelling any time it struck the actual bridge.

Officials said your link has been closed in order to traffic, leading to cars needing to cross the Kentucky Lake reservoir as well as the Tennessee River to become detoured to get dozens of miles. The Coast Guard as well blocked usage of boat traffic on the conduit site.

Robert Parker, 51, with Cadiz, Ky., claimed he / she and also his her conversation were visiting northbound about your highway after departing his or her stepson's residence in Murray, Ky. They were traveling inside rain under the darkened fills all around 8-10 p.m. whenever they all of the sudden noticed a not universally known 20-foot piece of this bridge, which in turn at of which segment stands a minimum of 20 toes over that water.

"All of an unexpected I find the particular road's gone and I reach the actual brakes," he or she said. "It got close."

Parker reported your dog ceased his pick-up inside personal training foot in the not often known section. Two automobiles behind him quit upon his / her bumper and he saw a different automobile about the other side with the not universally known part stopped.

He stated your dog didn't really feel the particular boat strike the particular fills but "felt the fills was sort of weak." They was mandated to detour regarding 50 kilometer after kilometer to come back home to Cadiz.

Officials state with regards to 2,800 cars or trucks travel regular upon the bridge, which often by now is at your procedure for being replaced, although the new fill will not be made yet. Motorists have already been cautioned to consider alternative routes.