If you have so many accidents at one intersection, because the bridge is absurdly low, that you install cameras to catch all the carnage, you might want to consider digging the damn thing out to make it taller or closing it altogether. I mean WTF is the thought process here? I understand that it is the responsibility of the driver to pay attention to the height of bridges, but come on. This one in Durham North Carolina is comical and not in a good way!
According to what we could find on video and such the number of trucks that crash into this bridge on a yearly basis would seem to warrant some changes. I realize it is a train bridge and that raising it would be problematic. I also realize that digging it out isn’t as easy as it sounds either. So close the stupid thing! Put a GIANT speed bump in front of it and a GIANT sign that says you can’t take anything larger than a Camry over it. I just don’t get it. Sure it’s entertaining to watch the video, but man the truck rental people have to hate this place. I sure would if I were them.
I note that several of these assholes clearly ran a red light, as well. Speaks more to the driver than the bridge. But point taken that the city council is remiss by not making an appropriate change. They went through the expense of adding a bumper forward of the tressel just to protect it from the damage they knew was occuring.
Another surprise is that the local cage driver’s will drive up right behind the trucks like they had no idea that this happens All. The. F’ing. Time!
Why should the taxpayers and the railroad spend millions to compensate for stupidity?
Oh, yea right, this is America.
But it’s all on the drivers so let the bridge have it’s sacrifices.
I noticed the big Overheight sign lights up just before the crashes. I guess a height sensor further up the road doesn’t always work! Part of my CDL driving test was to recite bridge heights long after l passed them. Might be mostly C drivers in rental box trucks.
I drove trucks illegally on and off back in the day, and when I was out of work and on unemployment when my company closed down, the state said “What can you do?” to get me off the dole. I chose to get a CDL and get legit, so they sent me to the community college for the course. In training, they would take us down a street just north of downtown Houston that cut down a blind downhill turn to the right and immediately back to the left under a railroad underpass that was mismarked as being 13′ instead of the actual 14′ it was, and the instructor knew it. Laughed his ass off as I frantically downshifted and braked HARD! Told me to go ahead and clued me in, but it saved my butt a few times later on down the line when I went OTR. Don’t advocate for a person’s right to be protected from themselves. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS!!! If you can’t drive a truck or (fill in the blank), GET OUT FROM BEHIND THE CONTROLS!
lower the road deck .
The bridge is what it is. If you hit it, it’s your fault. It’s not like it ran out in front of you.
Between the drivers of the trucks and the nitwits in the cars tailgating them, it is obvious that too many people drive with their head fully up their backside.
Was in the truck rental business, for 25 years. The box damage was according to the Customer, seldom their fault.
My favorite, when asking Customer what happened to cause a 4 foot hole in the front of my truck, her response with a straight face, “I think someone tried to break in and steal my stuff “
Wouldn’t take much to mill the pavement a few inches , would save a few , we have a low train trestle that flips the trucks on their side and the they slide under the bridge , seen it more than a dozen times , also doesn’t mater from which direction !!! Crazy !
Seriously??? F these idiots, yeah lets change everything cause a few people are dumbasses. Have fun paying for a wrecked truck if you can’t bother to pay the hell attention when you’re driving one.