A barge smashed into the Pelican Island Bridge in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday morning, causing a section of the bridge to fall onto the barge, Fox 7 Austin reports.
Authorities have halted the evacuation of people who were stuck on Pelican Island after a barge struck the causeway connecting it with Galveston Wednesday morning.
The company that owns the barge that hit the Pelican Island Bridge near Galveston on Wednesday morning says the barge broke loose from its tow before drifting into the causeway.
The already unstable Galveston bridge where a barge crashed Wednesday could collapse or be condemned once the trapped vessel is moved from under it, Texas officials have expressed.
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