(15 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Galveston, Texas – 15 May 2024
1. Various of workers on the crashed barge
2. Various of cars driving through bridge that leads to Pelican Island
3. Zoom out of crashed barge
4. Police boat patrolling
5. Various of police vehicle blocking a road
STORYLINE:
A barge slammed into 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.
Transportation officials were allowing vehicles to exit Pelican Island on Wednesday afternoon, but the bridge remained closed to all other vehicular traffic.
There are currently about 180 students, faculty and staff on the university’s campus, a spokesperson 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, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.
AP video shot by Lekan Oyekanmi
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