Rural bridge buckles, road closed

Rural bridge buckles, road closed

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A section of 7th Road southwest of Archer remains closed after the bridge buckled sometime in the evening of July 24th or early morning hours of July 25th.

The closed section of road lies between O Road and P Road, just south of Archer Zion United Methodist Church. A timber bridge crossing Prairie Creek on 7th Road just north of O Road—one of thirty- one such bridges that still remain in Merrick Co…