--- description: It's been a bad couple of months for a Tennessee bridge. A stretch of I-65 in Williamson County was severely damaged when a tanker truck... title: Watch As Tennesee Officials Blow Up a Bridge On Purpose image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch As Tennessee Officials Blow Up a Bridge On Purpose by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2014 7:42 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2014 7:42 PM CUT It’s been a bad couple of months for a Tennessee bridge. A stretch of I-65 in Williamson County was severely damaged when a tanker truck collided with a bridge support last month and exploded. Officials saw the explosion as a [death sentence for the bridge](http://www.wkrn.com/story/26520228/i-65-peytonsville-road-closed "undefined"), and delivered the coup de grace this weekend by blowing up the entire bridge, ABC’s Nashville affiliate reports. This video, taken by a bystander, shows the explosion of the bridge Saturday morning. It happens quickly and with a massive explosion, and it’s very impressive. Scroll to about 3:20 for the boom. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3409395/tennessee-bridge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3409395/tennessee-bridge/"},"headline":"Watch As Tennessee Officials Blow Up a Bridge On Purpose","datePublished":"2014-09-20T19:42:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:21.056Z","description":"It's been a bad couple of months for a Tennessee bridge. A stretch of I-65 in Williamson County was severely damaged when a tanker truck...","url":"https://time.com/3409395/tennessee-bridge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3409395/tennessee-bridge/","name":"Watch As Tennessee Officials Blow Up a Bridge On Purpose"}}]}] ```