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| One of many trucks that tried and failed to violate teh laws of physics by going into an underpass that's not as tall as the truck. |
Cars can fit just fine getting through the underpass beneath the bridge, which is really a train trestle.
But the bottom of the bridge is 11 feet, eight inches above the roadway, meaning it's trouble for trucks. (Technically the space is 11 feet, 10 inches, but they try to give people two inches of wiggle room, just to be generous. )
There's a number of warning signs and lights alerting drivers to the low clearance ahead, but somehow, people driving trucks, especially inexperienced people driving rental trucks, just don't get it.
There's a whole website, called 11 foot 8, dedicated to all the stupid truck drivers who tried to get under the bridge, Proprietors of the web site have recorded no fewer than 97 trucks smashing into the bridge.
As the web site notes:
"The train trestle prominently featured in all the videos here has earned a reputation for its unrelenting enforcement of the lawes of physics. If your vehicle is taller than 11 feet, eight inches, and you challenge this bridge, you might find ootage of your experience on this website."
Somehow, this bridge or train trestle insists on adhering to the laws of physics. Go figure.
The website says trucks crash into the bridge on average once a month. At least once a day, a truck trips overhead warning lights which makes them stop in time and turn around.
They can't simply block the road from trucks, because as you can see in the video below, there's a cross street right before the bridge. There are several businesses and restaurants on that cross street that need access by delivery trucks.
As long as those delivery trucks don't go straight into the underpass, no problem.
Here's a video of a bunch of crashes at the trestle through May, 2013. There's a LOT of them. People never learn, do they?
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