Known additionally for its suicides the bridge has since been improved, with the instalment of higher railings.

[2] The bridge deck waterproofing system (Icosit Membrane) was made by Sika Inertol of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

The prestressing metal cable was provided by British Ropes (of Doncaster in South Yorkshire).

Each section of the bridge was built with a 377-feet-long gantry leg, or launching girder, from the neighbouring concrete pier, by the balanced-cantilever method.

The A39, that it carries, is known as the Atlantic Highway, which originates at junction 27 of the M5 at Burlescombe and Sampford Peverell in Devon, close to the Somerset boundary.