The Jimmy Mann Evans Memorial Bridge is a 0.5-mile-long (0.80 km), steel stringer, multibeam bridge which carries Interstate 40 (I-40) across Kentucky Lake, part of the Tennessee River, in the western part of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
The bridge also spans the boundaries between Benton and Humphreys counties and the western and middle parts of the state.
The Jimmy Mann Evans Memorial Bridge carries four lanes of I-40 on a single span across the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River.
[2] The segment of I-40 between Memphis and Nashville, the first section of interstate completed between two major cities in Tennessee, was dedicated on July 24, 1966, in a ceremony officiated by then-governor Frank G. Clement and U.S.
[5] The murder of Holly Bobo reportedly took place underneath the bridge in April 2011.