A damaged bridge column at the Interstate 20 and Interstate 45 interchange will lead to traffic restrictions this weekend, including a full road closure to conduct repairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Westbound I-20 has been reduced to one lane at the I-45 interchange following a collision <\/a>involving two 18-wheelers that took place Monday afternoon, according to the Dallas Police Department<\/a>. No injuries were reported, and the Texas Department of Transportation immediately closed down both interstates to evaluate the impact.<\/p>\n An over-height vehicle on southbound I-45 struck the westbound I-20 bridge and damaged several beams, said Kenna Mitchell, public information officer for TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n The interchange, located south of downtown Dallas near Hutchins, will undergo emergency repairs requiring the full closure of southbound I-45 starting at 9 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n Following this closure, more lanes of westbound I-20 are expected to open but will remain in a narrow configuration until further notice, according to TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no detours or diversions, and drivers need to either plan ahead for delays or seek an alternate route,\u201d Mitchell said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A damaged bridge column at the Interstate 20 and Interstate 45 interchange will lead to traffic restrictions this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,37109,17921,88573,87998,100510,271],"class_list":["post-440803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-interstate-20","tag-service","tag-tp-traffic","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-traffic-accidents","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}