US Highway 59 was closed on the Arkansas River south of Sollisaw due to the collision. Traffic was first blocked and then reopened after safety checks.
Just last Tuesday, a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse. 14 people died and eleven were injured when another bridge collapsed, causing ten vehicles to fall into the water after a tugboat pushing two barges hit a pylon of the structure along Highway I 40. In that case it was an illness on the part of the tugboat captain that caused the accident.