This bridge is open again - I drove across it today. It appears to have been restored.
From the description of this bridge(location, spans, length, and year built), it sounds alot like the DUNBAR COVERED BRIDGE. I don't know of any metal bridges like this around here. Visiting the bridge years ago I thought there was too much traffic racing around the corner flying through and almost a collision too. The bridge needs to be bypassed or heavily strengthened and controlled by signals. Sorry if I'm wrong about what bridge this is.
As of August 15, this bridge is closed to all traffic, whether or not it is going to be rehabilitated, replaced, or simply removed remains to be seen. The highway dept. has place large piles of sand and gravel on each end of the bridge to block traffic, and as now, no construction seems to be in progress.
My friends and I found this bridge in an extreme state of dis-repair... There were places where a person could probably have torn pieces of the gaurdrail off, and there was a large portion of gaurdrail missing entirely, presumably due to an encounter with a vehicle, judging by the type of damage inflicted. The general appearance of the bridge made us question its safety, and it took us a little bit of time to muster the nerves to actually take a vehicle across the bridge.
The builder of this Bridge..J.A. Britton..He was my great great great grandfather..My Cousin and I are both doing a family tree of our family and this is what we have found this far..It's amazing...J.A. Britton was a great man that was a POW of the civil war. He built many of bridge in Indiana..