Chouteau Creek Old US 40 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Chouteau Creek on the south I-70 frontage road (formerly US 40, later Route OO)
- Location
- Cooper County, Missouri
- Status
- Destroyed by collision
- History
- Built 1924; reconstructed 2012
- Design
- Riveted, 5-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 179.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.93382, -92.90006 (decimal degrees)
38°56'02" N, 92°54'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/508661/4309437 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pilot Grove North
- Land survey
- T. 48 N., R. 18 W., Sec. 9
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 410
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT G-365 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 4609 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21341 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of October 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 77 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Sources
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
Comments
Looks like the poor old bridge went through the mill.
NOT MoDOT owned
The bulldozer wasn't by chance MoDOT owned, was it?
It was not a drunk driver. A guy was hauling a dozer westbound. Blade caught the end of the pony truss, the impact jerked the dozer off of the trailer and caused the dozer to slide across the deck and cause the damage to the south side of the pony truss. There are gouges in the pavement from the impact. Dozer landed at the west end of the bridge. I was at the site today. The direction that the driver came at the bridge from was a hill and a blind corner. Deck is spongy on the north side by the major damage. The pictures you see there do not tell the full extent of the damage.
May have been a drunk driver?
This bridge is on a straight section of two lane road. I cannot imagine how poor one's driving skills would have to be to do this.
Bridge was hit and is damaged beyond repair.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/cooper/chouteau-creek/
Here is a press release from MODOT Central District on 8 August 2012:
Contract Awarded for Replacement of Route OO Bridge in Cooper County
COOPER COUNTY - The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has awarded a contract to replace the Chouteau Creek bridge on Route OO in Cooper County. The bridge, located west of Short Road, sustained significant structural damage due to an accident on April 5 and has been closed since.
Widel, Inc., of Blackwater, Mo., was awarded the contract after submitting the lowest bid of $175,701.50. The contractor can complete the work anytime between Sept. 10 and Nov. 1. Motorists are advised to continue using alternate routes around the area during construction.