Perhaps because I've driven truck so much myself, I must admit that one of my guilty pleasures is watching trucks "can opener" on bridges. I always considered 11foot8 the pinnacle of truck stickers. This one is far better.



I noticed that the FD at the 2 min mark didn't bring the ladder truck from the 1 min mark.

Also, how about that vicious curb? Brutal.

Even with the flashing arrows.



I was once behind a brand new (looking) 5th wheel cruising along I90 in northern Indiana. Some of those overpasses around Gary are pretty low, but this guy was going full speed and didn't seem to care. When it took off the top foot of his brand new camper he began to care. If you drive that area, you'll see all kinds of scars on those overpasses. This guy wasn't the first.

Gotta admit:

I enjoyed the tailgators getting splattered with truck debris almost as much as the truck hitting the well marked bridge

I was rooting for the fire to take down that evil little bridge

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what the hell happened at 1:04 sec with that car? Why don't they just dig to lower the road?

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Originally posted by r0gue:
what the hell happened at 1:04 sec with that car? Why don't they just dig to lower the road?

His right front tire hit the curb and shot him across the road.

That fire truck was an expensive hit.

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Originally posted by Shifferbrains:
That fire truck was an expensive hit.

Known as a career limiting move.

Definitely evil when it takes out a ladder truck and two cars.

The fire truck hit surprises me - you'd think they would know better

but the crew that showed up seem to have some serious difficulty in putting the wet stuff on the red stuff

There's a link in the comments that goes to another video of the truck on fire. It says that the truck on fire had 7,000 pounds of lobster onboard, and $100,000 of lobster went up in smoke.

It also said that Massachusetts has rebuilt this underpass and bridge in 2018 at a cost of $17.2M. It guess that's the end of videos from this bridge.

You love watching trucks hit bridges? What? I don't even know what to say. What in the world are you talking about?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
You love watching trucks hit bridges? What? I don't even know what to say. What in the world are you talking about?

It's not accidental. It's gross negligence. It's more like seeing someone go speeding by you, and then see them pulled over down the road. More of an instant karma kind of thing.

I don't get off watching people getting hurt, but that's not what this is. What I don't mind seeing is people in my profession getting their due, especially when this type of negligence is the kind of crap that gets my profession a bad rap. Jamming your truck under a bridge after driving past all of the warning signs doesn't get me the least bit of sympathy for the effects.

The authorities don't cut me any slack for my lack of care wrt trucking, and I guess I don't have sympathy for those making it more difficult for me. When inattentive people do this kind of thing, it only adds to the level of regulation and scrutiny I get. So no, I don't have a bit of sympathy for sticking a truck under a bridge.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
The fire truck hit surprises me - you'd think they would know better

but the crew that showed up seem to have some serious difficulty in putting the wet stuff on the red stuff

I've been out of the fire service for a long time as a volunteer and paid-on-call. Besides what you said which I totally agree with the other thing is why put your engine that close to the fire? There is a reason for the pre-connects, usually the ones I worked from had a minimum 150 feet ready to pull and charge.

The truck with all the lobster was sad, they all died before their time... in the pot.

Seriously though, hate to see that happen to anything lobsters included.

That's an evil bridge - I think the curb is worse though, deflecting cars off the curb into either the wall or another vehicle - especially with how the curb is curved as it approached the underpass, its a perfect deflector

True story....

The SF community has a lot of ties to the WV ARNG. One of those ties is a program called "Ridge Runner" which is essentially live action Dungeons & Dragons played out across the state, complete with a multitude of scenarios, role players, NPCs, etc. I have had the privilege of helping out in a few of the iterations.

One took place in southern WV, and the group playing was housed at an airport near Logan, WV. As a lot of airports are around here, this one was on top of a mountain. To get to said airport, one had to pass UNDER a railroad track. The road actually dips under it, and there is a fairly prominent sign warning motorists of the low height.

Despite this, a certain officer (who shall go unnamed) drove a rental box truck under aforementioned railroad overpass. He did it successfully, albeit doing some damage to the top of the truck. When we arrived at the airport, we handed off the truck to the team and their 'observer/controller', a vet of the Irish Army and now with WVARNG's 2/19 SFG. With the hand-off we also give a warning....DO NOT TAKE THE TRUCK UNDER THE RAILROAD OVERPASS.

Fast forward to about 0200 hrs. The team has loaded a lot of their extraneous gear into the box truck. A couple of Carl Gustavs. A couple of M240Bs. Various packs and bags of obvious military nature. The Irish O/C and his Puerto Rican-native 'battle buddy' (a commo dude as I recall, voluntold to help with this particular operation) are to drive the truck to where we're running the thing. Where does our intrepid O/C take the truck? Under the railroad, of course. And he gets the truck stuck.

A passing tow truck driver sees the stuck truck. He pulls up and addresses the O/C, asking if he can help. They accept the offer, and all they succeed in doing is peeling off the roof and driver's side wall of the box, spilling all this hardware out of the truck.

Now the O/C has kept his Irish brogue, and I would not be surprised if he deliberately accentuates it, just to stand out. And the guy from PR is also a ESL type. Keep in mind, this is southern WV and this tow truck driver is suddenly confronted with two obvious 'furriners' in civvy clothes with a truck full of machine guns and rocket launchers. LOL He(according to the O/C) backpedals quickly, fumbling with his cell phone, calling the state police. Fortunately those guys (and the 911 call center) had been briefed in on the whole thing, so it was all straightened out quickly.

But I would have loved to have watched that all unfold.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:

I don't get off watching people getting hurt, but that's not what this is.

That looks like a real likely possibility for cars unfortunate enough to be coming the other way.

Some of those trucks were commercial, weren't they? If they had a dispatcher on the ball they should have been routed around that bridge?

"Go faster! We can beat it!"

First guy: The sign for that bridge says 10'6" and our truck is taller than that.

Second guy: Hell, I don't see any cops around, do you?

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and all they succeed in doing is peeling off the roof and driver's side wall of the box, spilling all this hardware out of the truck.

Isn't this one of those situations where one lets the air out of the tires to gain enough clearance? Assuming the tow truck has an on-board compressor to reinflate.

I was also surprised that the firemen were that dumb.