Not a very good safeguard, especially in snow regions. Much better to place the sign at the entry point with a chain preventing large trucks from getting through.
I've been wondering that same thing. It's as if we are only seeing a portion of the image and that the missing part is very relevant to the point of the story.
Trucks are still hitting 11'8" after recently installed height sensors now trigger traffic lights red to the over height trucks. Guess if you can't see a low bridge, seeing a stoplight is out of the question.
Haven't heard if police are now charging drivers with running a red light to hit the bridge..
11'8" is (figuratively) in my back yard... Durham, NC is about 18 miles from where I live..
They probably take pity on the drivers, since the cost of repairing the trucks in question could way exceed the cost of a ticket. There's one truck where the entire box above the truck bed was fubar.
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Apologies, maybe I shouldn't have put this in the "Failures and Disasters" forum. Maybe a "Near miss" forum would be more appropriate. Nothing happened and after a few quiet words, the driver parks up and walks the 20m to deliver the water.
Water is pretty heavy. Perhaps the driver was near the end of his route and had delivered most of the water to other customers. Hopefully the owner will smarten up and put appropriate signage and barricades at the entrance to the parking area. If he doesn't, he could be facing some serious future lawsuits.
Many of the 11foot8 'victims' are people who see the bridge is low, but don't understand their vehicle is not. Most are R/Vs and rental vans. A few seem to be making special trips. I doubt many professional over the road truckers are called by the siren song of 11foot8.
Every so often 11foot8 sells artwork - pieces of metal recovered from the scene that have been turned into decorative curls.
I think may favorites are the A/C units on R/Vs ("It's OK honey, the roof is 11 foot5.") and delivery trucks that leave a curlicue of aluminum behind.
The bridge has a nasty sibling that's a bit shorter I think. There's a video of it claiming a truck full of lobsters, setting it ablaze. Here it is -
East Street Railroad Bridge. Truck with several tons of lobsters. 10'4" Bridge.
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Pay attention to the narrowing of the road, while retaining the sidewalk. There are other videos of drivers hitting the sidewalk and deflecting head-on into traffic coming the other way.
I'm not sure that I would want that group of firemen responding if my house was on fire. I'm just saying that they didn't seem all that quick getting water onto that truck fire.
What I find interesting and sad is that 6 vehicles were at the seen and nobody checked on the driver. You don't even see any movement from him until about 3 minutes after the accident.
What's fascinating is the differences in damage for the same type Penske or Ryder truck. I guess the heavily laden ones ride lower and sometimes only scrape paint and rivet heads off the top, others do a perfect zippering of the top, while unloaded others get really gouged.
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That East Street Railroad bridge is apparently 11foot8's "Little Brother." For sheer destruction, it seems to be actually better, because it's not this artificial sacrificial barrier that kills the trucks, it's the bridge itself. Moreover, as 3DDave states, the road itself has a built-in mayhem maker. There's a nice compilation of the mayhem here:
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