My news clippings from the Pocomoke paper are gone but I did find these pictures that were taken 2 days after it collapsed. There isn't much on the internet but I did find some interesting information.......
Md. Eastern Shore Bridge Collapses
Article from: The Washington Post Article date: August 18, 1988 Author: Paul Valentine
A two-lane bridge over the Pocomoke River collapsed early this morning, causing no known injuries, but drawing top Maryland highway officials to this town to dispel fears that the state's bridges are becoming dangerous.
Two 36-foot spans of the 285-foot-long bridge tumbled into the river about 1 a.m., officials said, just after a car had crossed it. Maryland troopers rushed to the scene at the edge of this Eastern Shore town and closed off traffic within minutes, officials said.
The cause of the mishap was still not known late today, ...
Well, that was not all I found. Two days before the collapse of span, a motorist traveling west to east noticed a dip in the bridge deck and that the pedestrian crosswalk railing ,in places,| Direct Links | Movies world | Software world | Download PC Games | Mediafire Links | Celebrity Pictures seemed to bowed downward. The same motorist on August 16,1988 crossed the bridge again and notice the dip in the bridge had become more severe. He naturally assumed that the bridge tenders were aware of it and didn't feel the need to report it to anyone. ( I would assume that too). And the manager of the market on the Somerset side of the bridge noticed the same thing
on those same two days.
August 16, 1988, around 11:00 a.m. another motorist noticed
a "V" shaped depression that traveled 10 to 12 inches deep and about 20 ft. long. This wasn't all he found to be faulty with the bridge and immediately drove to Pocomoke City Police Dept. and reported it to the dispatcher. The dispatcher did not notify the officers on duty nor was it logged in as a complaint on the police log.