here’s a compilation of different people driving box trucks into a low bridge over and over
It’s worth knowing a few fun facts, courtesy of 11foot8.com:
They can’t raise the bridge because it’s a train trestle, and raising it would require closing and modifying miles of busy track.
They can’t lower the road because it’s directly over a sewer main.
They can’t ban trucks entirely because there are too many local deliveries.
That section of road has a speed limit of 25 mph, numerous signs alerting drivers to the 11'8" limit, and recently they added a sensor that activates the stoplight and a flashing “overheight warning” sign so that drivers have to stop and think really hard about going forward.
The clearance is actually nearly three inches more than 11'8", the maximum deviation from the signage allowed.
Trucks have been getting stuck or damaged since the 1960s.
The guy who runs the website (and owns the cameras) says he sees a lot more trucks pull up to the stoplight, look at the warnings, and turn off onto the side road, but about once a month, someone hits the bridge.
the penske business is probably sick of this shit
Since all the information is from 2017, here some updates from April 2022 according the website 11foot8.com
The bridge was finally raised in October 2019 to a new clearance height of 12 feet and 4 inches (though the actual height is 12 feet 8 inches, measured by the webmaster himself). The road was open again to traffic on November 5, 2019.
The first truck struck the new crash beam on November 26, 2019.
In acknowledgement of the new height, the website now calls it the 11 foot 8+8.
He also calls the bridge “the Canopener”
Despite clearance being a whole 8 inches higher, trucks still strike the clearance bar.
If you want to support him, he has a Patreon and a store where he sometimes sells art made from the debris. Both are linked off his website.
J: People are always more interested in hearing about what Madeline did at some party last month than they are in last week’s episode of Ghost Adventures. So, I just stick with that.
