A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a smaller and separate island that is home to a university, officials said.There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.The bridge that leads to Pelican Island, north of Galveston, was struck by the barge around 9:50am (12.50am AEST) when a tugboat backing out of Texas International Terminals, a fuel storage operator next to the bridge, lost control of two barges it was pushing, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
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