Rebuilding set to start for badly damaged I-465 overpass
INDIANAPOLIS — A contractor is set to begin rebuilding a bridge over I-465 in Indianapolis that was badly damaged when it was hit by a semitrailer’s load in early January.
The state highway department says crews are scheduled to start Monday night installing four new steel-reinforced, concrete beams for the Rockville Road/U.S. 36 bridge on the city’s west side.
The agency says the work could take two nights to finish placement of the 125-foot-long beams.
A truck carrying a car crusher struck bridge girders on Jan. 10 and knocked down chunks of concrete, including one that injured a motorist when it crashed through a car windshield.
At the time, police said the hydraulic piston of the mobile car crusher extended upward while the semi was in motion.
As the semi approached the Rockville Road overpass, the extended car crusher hit the bridge. The impact separated the tractor from the trailer and damaged at least four beams from the bridge. The eastbound lanes of Rockville Road were also badly damaged.
Crews partially demolished the damaged bridge.
State officials aren’t yet estimating when the bridge rebuilding will be completed.
