Low bridge shaves trucks.
A height sensor on the street detected impending doom here last month. Yellow lights began flashing a block away. The danger: A Budget rental truck barging down the road wasn’t going to get under the railroad overpass.
The truck ignored the warning. It rumbled underneath. Its roof did not.
The train bridge’s underside trimmed a layer off the truck’s top, looking like a grater shaving a layer of cheese.
The world can watch the whole thing, thanks to Jürgen Henn.
Hearing the crash from his office nearby, the systems analyst raced out to survey the scene. He returned to his computer, checked his video cameras and uploaded footage of the episode to 11foot8.com, his website that tracks accidents under this city’s infamous 11-foot-8-inch underpass.
It was a milestone mishap, the 100th time since 2008 the bridge had bit into a vehicle.
A height sensor on the street detected impending doom here last month. Yellow lights began flashing a block away. The danger: A Budget rental truck barging down the road wasn’t going to get under the railroad overpass.
The truck ignored the warning. It rumbled underneath. Its roof did not.
The train bridge’s underside trimmed a layer off the truck’s top, looking like a grater shaving a layer of cheese.
The world can watch the whole thing, thanks to Jürgen Henn.
Hearing the crash from his office nearby, the systems analyst raced out to survey the scene. He returned to his computer, checked his video cameras and uploaded footage of the episode to 11foot8.com, his website that tracks accidents under this city’s infamous 11-foot-8-inch underpass.
It was a milestone mishap, the 100th time since 2008 the bridge had bit into a vehicle.