Driver killed in tunnel by falling conduit
Driver killed in tunnel by falling conduit
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I use this tunnel on a regular basis and never thought twice about the overhead conduits or jet fans.
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This is on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; north of Allentown.
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This is on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; north of Allentown.





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I suspect that as highways are widened, that it's sometimes easier to simply reroute them.
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I seem to recall certain sections of the "Big Dig" has having HUGE slabs of concrete hanging from the roof, one of which fell and killed a motorist.
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Dik
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Lights, vent fans and vent fan inlet screens, fire fighting water supplies? Haven't looked much up at the tunnel interiors when I go through them. The tunnels are washed regularly to clean deposits, so they get a lot of water and combustion by-products highly concentrated up there.
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I think that should be "...do have stuff hanging..."
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If it's a sign in a tunnel or an over head sign on another part of a highway, what difference does it make? Except I can see the epoxy issue.
Then again, I haven't driven through many tunnels, as most highways here use cuts and not tunnels.
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The four vehicular tunnels in NYC don't have anything significant hanging from the ceilings. At the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Unnels the ceilings were replaced post-"Big-Dig" but I believe the panels are supported on the walls.
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He said the tunnel’s most recent inspection occurred in September 2016. The agency in December sought bids to replace Lehigh Tunnel lights, with work expected to begin this spring.
If the Turnpike was planning to replace the lighting system this spring, it may be assumed that the lighting installation must have been in a very poor state of repair.
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My understanding, too... and the wrong epoxy was supplied... a quick setting type that had poor 'creep' characteristics.
Dik
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And that reminds me of another incident, where my employer at the time had a trackhoe on the right-of-way to a local 2-lane highway. It was out by the fenceline, maybe 20' off the pavement. But in the middle of the night, somebody ran off the road and hit the counterweight on that trackhoe. When the workers got out there the next morning, they said there was still hair and blood on that counterweight.
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If they had lined the entire tunnel with $100 bills it would have been not only safer but cheaper.
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A German tourist was killed when a car jack his automobile ran over tore through the floorboard and impaled him, police said Monday. Dietrich Alt, 46, of Herzogenaurach Hammerbach, Germany, was driving west on Interstate 80 in northeastern Nevada with his wife and two children when the accident occurred Sunday, the Nevada Highway Patrol said. As the car drove over the jack, the tool flipped up and punctured the car's floorboard, tore through the driver's seat and impaled Alt through the groin area. Alt was able to pull off the road and remove the jack, but he collapsed on the highway and died.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-08-13/new...
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