Fort Smith Times Record
By Robert Medley
May 23, 2022 Terri Angier knew how to respond to emergency situations. In 2002, Angier had worked for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation for 12 years when her telephone rang on a Sunday before church. That morning it was Director Gary Ridley. The Interstate 40 bridge at Webbers Falls, about 30 miles west of Fort Smith had been struck by a barge and vehicles had plummeted into the rushing Arkansas River waters below. Angier recalls packing a suitcase before she hung up the telephone. A few hours later she would be by the bank of the river. Fourteen people had died. There were 11 people injured and rescued.
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