A dump truck trailer hit an overpass in Georgia on Thursday and moved it six feet. The damaged bridge caused the closure of Interstate 16, a major artery between Macon and Savannah.
You'd think as many YouTube videos of accidents like this out there that they'd put a blinking idiot light in the cab to let the driver know his dump bed is raised.
I find that hard to believe unless they are simply talking about the amount of bridge movement. Dump trucks and other things have been hitting bridges for as long as I can remember. It's not a everyday thing, but it's likely something GDOT engineers would have experienced in their career.
One Northbound lane on Veterans Parkway was closed Saturday morning after a dump truck struck the beam of an overpass at Veterans Parkway and Buckhalter Road, according to the Chatham County Police Department.
If you get a fully loaded dump truck hauling a heavy load, traveling at speed, you're gonna have a lot of energy when you dissipate it in a collision.
Those beam sections aren't particularly massive, and they just rely on gravity to keep them on the stanchions. Apply a lateral force great enough and "hello Soperton!"
They removed the bridge on Thursday night and by Friday evening, all lanes of I-16 are reopened. I'm sure that'll change when they begin to rebuild the bridge, but there's no timeframe for that yet.
And he didn't notice that the truck felt extra top-heavy? It's not like he just drove across the street (which is a mistake anyone could make). He got up to freaking cruising speed on an interstate.
That is a frameless dump trailer. The running gear and truck broke away from it upon impact.
What is known, he went under a lower bridge before this one so the trailer was down. He had a female passenger in the truck that "may have hit the lever", the lever resides between and slightly forward of the seats. Speculation is he may have been preoccupied by the actions of the female passenger so much so he did not realize the dump was up
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