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rrlund · Feb 28, 2013

You've gotta see this. A web cam at a low rail road underpass.
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RayP(MI) · Feb 28, 2013

Seems like there"sone like that in the Lansing (MI) area. They have a electronic warning system before you reach the bridge, lights and horns. Guess evere once in a while, someone still gets the bridge.

TomH in PA · Feb 28, 2013

Pretty solid truck (and driver). Guy just backed up and drove off.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 28, 2013

Seen the other 59 crashes there, too. Every America's dumbest type video clip show shows that bridge regularly!

rrlund · Feb 28, 2013

There used to be one over on Backus Road south of County Farm just south of Ben Walkingtons place. I used to have to go all the way through Greenville to get to Bens place with the milk truck. I remember somebody was driving a truck for some insulation company (if I remember right) and they hit it. Tore the top right off of it.

rrlund · Feb 28, 2013

Check the one with the storage pod. That guy backed up and reloaded it while it was wedged up on end.

ray hofstetter · Feb 28, 2013

We had a 12'6" by us before they raised it to 13'9".
A local excavater loaned his backhoe,trailer, and dump truck to a friend. Went under the first time, because it was already loaded for him. But when he brought it back, he found out he bad the bucket too high above the dump truck. Ouch....took it right off the trailer.....

Harvey 2 · Feb 28, 2013

I knew a man that got caught under a low overpass and they gave him a ticket for hauling a bridge without proper papers.

samn40 · Feb 28, 2013

Sometimes if you hit them hard enough you can get them to move!
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fixerupper · Feb 28, 2013

We had one happen in our county seat town where a dump truck driver didn't realize his box was raising when he was driving down the street. The railroad overpass stopped him.

The I70 overpass on HWY 281 at Russell Kansas almost cleans the dust off the top of a combine. Same way with the I80 overpass at Pine Bluff Wyoming. Both times I was riding on top of the combine talking to the truck driver with the cell phone while we crept along. When the bridge beams are two inches above the combine it seemed like we were doing 60. Jim

omahagreg · Feb 28, 2013

Several years ago, our power utility hired a trucker to haul an oversized transformer out of Omaha. He had a permitted route, needed an escort, but did neither! He hit the first bridge so hard they would not let anyone underneath it till it was taken down! Of course it was a major artery, I680, around town! If memory serves, it took them 3 or four days to demolish it and haul it all away. The scuttle butt around town was 'now we know how long it really should take to do a job like that!'

Gambles · Feb 28, 2013

I'm not posting a link, but go to Google.com, click on images, and type in "crane hits overpass near Hays, Kansas". View the pictures and read a few stories about it. I've talked to a cop who worked that accident and according to her, a couple of businesses went bankrupt after that accident.

onefarmer · Mar 1, 2013

Yes that one is on Pennsylvania Av by Potters Park. Has all kinds of warnings. Several years ago they lowered the road under the bridge. There isn't as many hits now but still get a few. People are just blind and deaf at times.

JRSutton · Mar 1, 2013

There's a low bridge on a road near me - although a single lane road, a lot slower than that one.

The bridge itself is plenty high off the road, you wouldn't think twice about going under it - but the bridge is in the little valley between a steep downhill and a steep up hill.

So the real height of the bridge really depends on how long the vehicle is you're trying to put under it.

Many trucks make it under, only to get stuck halfway through.

Tim in OR · Mar 1, 2013

we have a few low ones around here. I do local deliveries with a flat bed truck/trailer with a moffet forklift hanging on the back of the truck. The Moffet is the highest point, so I sometimes have to break-up, drop the moffet. hook-up, pull the trailer thru, break-up, drive the moffet thru and hang it on the truck, then re-hook to the trailer. It is as big a pain as it seams. I have done the same thing on weight restricted bridges, only move product across with the moffet to make the truck light enough to go across.
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