Is this one of the world's toughest bridges?

Too funny!! A can opener for trucks. People just don't get it. Is someone sitting there with a camera all day in hopes of catching another one? Looks like easy pickins.

This made the state news some time back.  The guy lives in a nearby apartment and said it happened so frequently that he decided to set up some remote cameras pointed at the bridge.  I think there must be more videos because I did not see the truck from the company that I know.  

Spectacular

I find it absolutely amazing how so many drivers today simply do NOT read signs and do NOT pay attention to their driving. 11' 8" is a seriously low underpass. The national standard minimum clearance is 13' 6".

I actually once saw a driver run into one of the large, lighted, flashing arrow signs at a lane-closed merge point. Evidently the driver totally missed all the bright orange signs all over the road for the previous MILE.

I'll bet the railroad has to inspect that bridge for proper alignment every week!

shucks, that's nothing!

the bridge on Main Street in town here has only 11'-2" clearance under the Northeast Corridor's four track mainline, a very seriously low bridge. there are large low clearance signs for blocks in either direction and large yellow flashing lights on the bridge itself. no matter because the bridge is hit every week by truck drivers asleep at the wheel.

I specifically use a lower clearance truck to make deliveries to the post office, which is right next to the bridge on the far side.

last Friday night, after a hectic hurricane week, we decided to treat ourselves to dinner in town. an 18 wheeler came down Main Street and fortunately went around the block after coming to the bridge, taking the side mirror right off my Jeep in the process!

Next to the middle school where I went to in New Jersey is a railroad bridge where so many trucks were nailed that someone started painting white truck silhouettes on its side.

Speaking of drivers not paying attention to their surroundings, I once watched a driver try to merge into highway traffic between a tow truck and the car it was towing.  No collision occurred, but you could tell that the driver was determined to merge between those vehicles and was getting upset that the invisible driver in the car behind the tow truck was absolutely refusing to let her merge. 

Andy

As far as I know, no state requires an intelligence test to get a license. 

The fact that there is a national standard of 13' 6" is part of what gets these people into trouble. They stop paying attention to the signs even though it is clearly posted. They just expect to be able to drive under anything.

Actually, it looked like there was an H beam installed a couple of feet away from the actual bridge. It was quite bent from the impacts.

Another thing that I have seen happen is a bridge may originally be signed for a certain height but then the roadway gets resurfaced and they do not adjust the signage. 

US77A near Cuero used to have a sign whch said"

IF YOU HIT THIS (Telltale), YOU WILL HIT THE BRIDGE.  (Ex-SP)

TXDOT had a new overpass built.

TXDOT and Houston METRO have warnings, telltales, flashing lights for the service roads of IH-610 at Fannn warning of METRO's catenary.  You can get on the overpass to bypass it.  It has been hit.  Guess people like the fell of 750V DC!

The most hit bridge in Houston was, believe it or not, at one time was US 59 eastbound at Hazzard Street.  However, the freeway has been rebuilt.

In Texas, trucks can learn about low underpasses from TXDOT's website....

Hey, if you hit the bridge and/or smash bar, and if you drive away, is that not hit and run?

SP used to have "P" plates on signals between Glidden and Weimar Texas.  They had a special wire on the bridge which would trigger the signal if the RR overpass was hit.  The wire looked like a ham radio HF/Shortwave antenna on the bridge.

Here in Onondaga County (Syracuse NY) we have 10' 9".

Trucks used to regularly hit the old Erie & DL&W bridges in Hoboken and Jersey City.

In Washington DC, trucks often get stuck in the tunnel leading from the Southwest Expressway to the Capitol & beyond.

I note in the video there were "Overheight Vehicle flashers.

Hope Megabus does not come this way!

Brit Rail did a safety comercial.  Somebody was driving a retiresd British double decker bus.  Voice said people should make sure of a car's or trucks height.  At that point, the bus runs into a very low underpass......