Toughest Bridge in U.S.A..... people don't believe in warnings..some people are so sure..they know.

[Stuart G]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890

A comedy to human stupidity...watch and enjoy..It just shows that people do not believe in signs..
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about 2 and half minutes..(oh, I don't think anyone was hurt, just a lesson learned..)

music from the original Rocky theme...

[Lugnut]

1. ROFL!

Sorry. That just tickled me.

[rocktivity]

2. The tow truck company owner

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must be the richest man in town, LOL!!!

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[silhouete2]

7. I thought the exact same thing

while I was watching that. I bet the owner sees dollar signs everytime his/her phone rings. LOL!!!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

28. Phone hell! I would have a guy parked right by the bridge.

I wonder if the height sign is accurate?

[taterguy]

8. Did you watch the fucking video?

Shot in Durham.

Some of those Duke types make a helluva more more money than any tow truck driver.

[rocktivity]

17. But do those drivers LIVE in Durham?

Even if they are "Duke types," I dare say they'd be smart enough to avoid the trestle if they did.

I stand by my story.


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[taterguy]

25. Name one fucking tow truck driver . . .

That pulls down Coach K type green.

[Fla Dem]

3. Some seem to not even stop, oh well keep going. I hope I'm never that dumb. n/t

[Posteritatis]

4. "Never mind, the camper fits now!" (nt)

[madmom]

5. We have one just like that here. They have signs everywhere, they

changed them to flashing signs, even detours. Nothing helps. They are now in the process of trying to get funds to lower the road bed.

[Unca Jim]

6. Oh, Please...

A lot of those trucks are rentals, and people often don't know how tall the vehicles are that they are driving.

Great footage, though, and especially great music choice!

[PCIntern]

10. As a Philadelphian I couldn't agree with you more!

K and r!

[2naSalit]

36. In my comment below

I relate a story of a bridge around south Philly, I think it's a RR trestle on US13, sound about right? It looks almost like the one in the video! I've only been there twice and that was decades ago. I didn't go through and only touched the bridge as I was creeping really slowly and watching but I still tagged it and had "issues" afterward... and I had to get back to south Boston afterward. The trip home did more damage than the actual event since I had to pass through NYC interchanges to get there, and then there were some in CT before I got back. It wasn't pretty.

[adieu]

11. Your rental documents tell you how tall the vehicle is

and there's usually a sign on the side of the vehicle saying what the height is. And lastly, the renter is responsible for any damage.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Rental documents?

I know how to drive, I don't need to read no stinkin' rental documents!

[Beaverhausen]

39. IIRC there is a sign in the cab of the rental truck with the height in VERY LARGE LETTERS

Still, if you aren't used to having to think about it I can see how it happens.

[dsc]

19. I thought that too

but then toward the end of the video I noticed something. The lights flash if your vehicle is too tall.

[texanwitch]

9. We had a bridge here in Houston called the Hazard Street Bridge, it lived up to its name.

It was over a freeway 59.

The old bridge was torn down and replaced.

Trucks were always hitting the bridge.

[MineralMan]

12. Happens all the time.

My wife and I were driving down the road leading to Terminal 1 at MSP airport. We were following a box truck. Suddenly the top of the truck struck a large swinging sign announcing low clearance ahead. The truck continued on without noticing that it had hit the sign. The sign fell on the roadway, not far from the front of our car. Fortunately, I had been keeping back from the truck and was obeying the 15mph speed limit, so I stopped before hitting the sign. After we continued, we spotted the truck, which had sheared its roof off at the point the sign was warning about. Many flashing lights were on the scene.

Failure to pay attention.

[RomneyLies]

13. I crack up every time I see a truck driving North of the Loop on the LSD.

I've seen so many trucks stuck under the overpasses after they exit LSD.

[mopinko]

29. now, if you really lived in chicago, you would know that trucks aren't allowed

on lsd. hmmm.

have a bridge like that at the end of my block. between drivers who don't know how to back up and sliced up trucks, it is quite an annoyance.

[Stuart G]

30. I live near Chicago, and have lived in it.

There are litterally hundreds of bridges like this.. .we call them, viaducts.. So many railroad yards and undercrossings. I think most local truck and bus drivers know, but every once in a while you see the remains of of some truck and new marks. and since we have so many crossings with trains, it is common for drivers to try to beat the train. You hear about it ever so often. And almost always, the signals are working, and the train has it it's horn..and still people try to beat the train.

[2naSalit]

33. Back in the 1970s and

Probably well after that, there were 1172 low underpasses in the City of Chicago not counting outlying areas. I used to drive a produce truck with 13'6" trailer and sometimes 13'8" lettuce trailer back then, getting to the produce market on Water St. was something only locals and regulars knew how to do without finding a low bridge on the way and having to reroute. And I had to go all the way to So. Philly to find one to hit... looked just like the one in the video. I stopped, watched other trucks go under it and crept under it and as soon as the trailer touched, that was it. Even though I was going three mph and stopped as soon as it touched-I was hanging out the window watching the top, it still dinged the roof bad enough to cause a lot of damage. They're kind of like egg shells.

My friends (some much older drivers) consoled me by telling me... "Well you know, there's two kinds of truck drivers... the ones that hit the bridges and the ones that're gonna."

Love the video.

[RomneyLies]

34. Yes, they are not allowed.

Yes, I crack up every time I see one because I know what's coming.



I saw one get stuck under the Montose bridge. He was finally able to get out by letting most of the air out of his tires.

Of course I know the cops that were there ended up giving him a pricey ticket for his screwup, too.

[Arugula Latte]

14. It seems like it's a matter of time before someone following in a car gets hurt or killed

by sheared-off debris.

Yeah, most of those drivers should know better but this seems ridiculously hazardous and worth the money to raise the bridge.

[treestar]

15. They should know how tall their truck is

Maybe they think it will fit if it is 11' - maybe subtract a foot from the sign and say it clears only 10' to help prevent more of this!

[Marrah_G]

18. Downtown Woonsocket, RI has one of these bridges

Couple times a year at least, some idiot is stuck under the train bridge.

here is the most recent...and not a rental truck.

http://woonsocket.patch.com/articles/truck-sticks-under-main-street-rail-bridge-blocking-morning-traffic

[Budgies Revenge]

20. Athens, GA has one of those too

The Bridge that eats trucks is on the lower end of College Ave near downtown Athens--I'm always amazed at the speed at which some of those trucks have to be going to completely wedge themselves under that thing.

[mike_c]

26. LOL, I remember that underpass....

Google street view: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=&layer=c&cbll=33.95307,-83.37091&cbp=12,0,0,0,0

[Major Nikon]

21. The dumbest one has to be the driver of the 2nd hay truck

[unblock]

22. the easy solution is to put one of those height testers a reasonable distance in front of them.

there are fancy electronic truck height warning systems, but the simple solution is to have a bar at the right height a reasonable distance in front of the bridge. it's just a suspended big yellow tube, designed to not cause damage but just to make a big noise if it's hit. hopefully that wakes up the truck driver and they stop.

not fool-proof, of course, but much cheaper than lowering the roadbed.

you may have seen these in multi-story parking garages.

[ErikJ]

23. All while listening to Rush Limbaugh.

Rush says its the gubmint's fault.

[Kennah]

43. Signs? With numbers? That's all mathy and Soshalisticably!

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. It's mentioned at the end of the video, and I don't know if anyone noticed,

but there's a website dedicated to the bridge: http://11foot8.com/

As the proud owner of a not-so-new RV, one of the first things I did when I bought it was to take my little sticker-making machine and print out a bright red sticker that reads "Clearance: 11'8"" and paste it right on the dashboard.

Those damned roof air-conditioning units are EXPENSIVE.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Wonder how many people measured to the top of the truck roof but not the A/C unit above it?

'cause looks like a lot of them are what got shredded under the bridge.

I liked the guy who was speeding and really sheared the top off.

[Buns_of_Fire]

41. I would guess that a lot of people don't measure at all.

The manufacturers' stuff tells you the base dimensions, but sometimes don't bother to tell you that the optional A/C will add nine inches or so.

Since that little sucker parked in the back of the apartment will probably be my primary residence in the next six months or so, it behooves me to keep track of these things. I don't need another skylight.

[Capt.Rocky300]

27. Have the folks in charge of the roads there...........

considered lowering the street? That was done last summer in a town near us. They couldn't raise the bridge due to grade considerations for the trains so they tore up the pavement and dug the road bed deeper. Had it done in about a week. Problem solved and the insurance companies are happy. Not that I give a damn if they are.

[whistler162]

32. We have several in the Syracuse area.

one is fairly infamous. It was involved in the MegaBus fatal crash several years ago. There are major warnings on both sides of the bridge and at the beginning of both ends of the parkway that leads to the bridge. Now there are more warning systems in place. Which probably won't work any better.

[sabbat hunter]

35. How do so many truck drivers

not know how tall their trucks are?

[MadrasT]

37. I feel like I shouldn't laugh...

... but

[struggle4progress]

38. Whoa! I now sees th'trestle at Gregson and Peabody wit new eyeses!

[greytdemocrat]

40. LOL!!!

Those shots are great! I worked at Hartz Mountain for a while and
there was a bridge like that accros from my office, got hit all
the time.

[Aerows]

42. Whoa!

I'm surprised that so many DIFFERENT trucks wiped out on that bridge.

[Are_grits_groceries]

44. When I moved from NC to SC,

it was about a 4 hour drive. My brother was driving the rental truck. We went over the best way to get out of the area with the man in charge of rentals. It was a circuitous route to get on the interstate.
We had used other sources to map out a route once we left the bigger highway. That was an adventure, but we knew there were many overpasses that we barely paid attention to when in cars. It was a longer route, but that beat the alternative.

[Hissyspit]

45. Have driven under it many times over the years.

In a car.

What the video doesn't really get across is that the bridge kind of sneaks up on you.

[laundry_queen]

46. There's a bridge where I live that always has trucks running into it

Except it's a major bridge, and trucks get stuck on the entrance to the bridge, usually about once a month or so. Because it's a major bridge, and the steel beam to the entrance of the bridge is a major support for the structure, the bridge is always shut down for a day or so while engineers check on the safety of the bridge. I don't know why they don't put a steel beam across the road further back before the entrance so that trucks will run into THAT before they run into the bridge and possibly compromise the structure. Would save a lot of money.

[rocktivity]

47. 2020 UPDATE: The bridge was raised from 11 feet 8 inches

to 12 feet 4 inches in October 2019 -- to no avail

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