The Washington State Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the Highway 305 will be reduced to one lane to accommodate repairs on the Agate Pass Bridge.

The highway will be shut down to one alternating lane of traffic on Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, while crews replace broken bridge railings and repair other damaged areas.

Flaggers will provide traffic control, and the Washington State Patrol will flag the Highway 305 intersection at Suquamish Way.

The bridge was damaged just after noon Tuesday, May 5, when a 28-year-old Poulsbo man in a 2002 Chevy pickup was heading north on Highway 305 pulling an empty trailer and the steel pin hitching the trailer to the truck sheered off as the truck crossed Agate Pass Bridge.

The trailer came loose, struck the curb and then smacked into the handrail on the east side of the bridge.

The impact deflated the two front tires on the trailer and bent the rims. Five slats connected to the handrail were also broken off.

No one was injured and the truck was not damaged.

Police did not issue any citations after determining the driver could not have prevented the pin from failing.

Claudia Bingham Baker, WSDOT spokeswoman, said the replacement parts for the bridge had to be hand-fabricated by the agency’s bridge crew because they are unique to that bridge.