TWO support posts are all that remain of the bridge that once straddled the Wehla Creek.
Farmer Barry Finch last week recalled the day when the crossing crumbled.
He recounted the day to the Loddon Herald during what Barry described as “some cross-country rally driving with the editor ... taking him on a short cut from Burkes Flat to Wedderburn, as we were both running late for an appointment”. 
“I told the story of the missing bridge over the creek. In mid-September 1978 a heavy vehicle crashed through the bridge over the Wehla Creek near Dale Stephenson’s house at Fentons Creek,” Barry has recalled.  “I believe it was a heavy Weights and Measures vehicle, used to check the accuracy of weigh bridge scales.
“The timber construction bridge had wooden running rails. The vehicle appeared to miss the running rails and hurtled through the side of the bridge. 
A crane was needed to lift the vehicle from its resting place on one of the pylons near the bottom of the creek.
“So, what went wrong? The heavy vehicle was coming from Logan, but halfway up the Big
Hill at Wehla, the truck lost power and could go no further. The driver reversed the vehicle
down the hill and headed down the Fentons Creek – Wehla Road, turning onto the Burkes Flat -Wedderburn Road near Stephenson’s. The rest is history, as they say. The bridge was beyond repair and was subsequently demolished.”
Barry says that according to the district  old-timers, the bridge had been there for “a very long time”. 
“The sides of the creek were pushed in, so road traffic could still cross the creek. When the remains of the bridge were removed, the road was re-routed across the Wehla Creek.
“The bridge was never rebuilt. Forty years later, the road remains impassable when the creek is up.”