Got this by email. Don't know where it happened, but I bet it made a lot of noise..
It appears the windshield is unbroken. That's amazing. The seatbelt probably just cut the driver in half. That would be an incredibly large monumetum change.
Somebody is going to get one heck of an invoice.
I sure hope he had written permission from the rail road or he's in a heap of trouble!
Side note, seen ia similar incident with similar equipment but concrete bridges, took chunks out of multiple bridges before stopping. Needless to say I reported his exact location ;no way do you not feel that!
Not Oklahoma, the road looks good.;-)
This guy set up a web cam and recorded 13 overpass vs. truck accidents in 13 months. Check out the first video.
That looks like one well built bridge!
Very nasty indeed . . from 60 to 0 in a second flat
With the metric clearance sign and vegetation type, I'm guessing Canada, and if so, the plates might be B.C. or Ontario . . so make that 100k to 0 in a second flat.
The driver of the truck was unharmed.
Unfreakingbelievable.
Yeah...
but I bet he needed to do laundry.
First thing I thought too.... How the heck do the bolts just shear off like that? I'd be looking into the engineering or construction materials. Looks like it was luck no one was driving over that bridge at the time.. WOW!
edit::
well, duh, andy, it's a train track!! haha. ok, at least there wasn't a train on it at the time.
I believe they are already trying to figure out how it was a layout error by the surveyor.
I'll bet that's the only over-pass for at least 100 miles in either direction.
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> That looks like one well built bridge!
I was thinking "That is one well built excavator!"
So, would you rather have been on the excavator or the bridge at the time of impact? o.O
