Florida Dept. of Transportation investigators continue to assess damage to the Pensacola Bay Bridge, which sustained multiple impacts from two construction barges unmoored by Hurricane Sally’s storm-driven waves on Sept. 15.
Drone footage from local news outlets indicates that one barge reportedly carrying a crane took down a full-span of the three-mile structure, opened in 2019 as the first part of a $430-million state replacement project. A 10-ft-wide multi-use path, just recently opened, was left spanning the gap. A second barge hit and gashed another bridge span.