Denver Police spent most of the day on Thursday looking for the driver of a flatbed that was hauling cargo which struck four different bridges without even slowing down.
“How do you hit, not one, but not two, but three bridges without noticing, and continuing along the road in doing so, and then leaving the scene?” asked a CODOT spokesperson before they realized the truck had actually hit four bridges.
The truck was driving on I-25 and hauling an excavator which collided with bridges at Speer Boulevard, 20th Street, 23rd Ave and 84th avenue. Two of the bridges sustained enough damage that they were temporarily closed to traffic and there was visible debris on the roadway.
After learning of the incident, the driver turned himself in, but apparently had no idea at the time that he had collided with the bridges. Authorities were able to confirm the driver was responsible because the excavator still has bits of concrete on it where it had struck the bottom of the bridges.
According to the Denver Police, it does not look like the driver was impaired at the time of the accidents, but he may still face multiple charges of careless driving and leaving the scene.
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Wow
Unprofessionalism runs rampant in our industry.
That’s due to the driver mills, when I was a younger kid 20 years ago ( still a kid – 28 ) people would actually use force on idiots now that is no longer a concern for these morons who think driving a truck is just another job. In order to be a real drive you have to love it, because if you don’t you won’t respect it.
respect goes both ways- loving it don’t matter unless you get paid something more than a few pennies along with some respect for your decisions and your time away from home.
The “not noticing” part is what gives this story its spice but the biggest infraction by far was ever hauling that trailer through that section of I-25 in the first place. If what you’re hauling is not a standard 13′ 6″-high container then you damn well better know what you’re doing. (For 13′ 6″ replace “damn well” with “sure” in that sentence.)
Another possible job opening???
Must have been Johnny Walker or Jim Beam under the wheel of that one!!! Or perhaps Mr. Bud Weiser. No cure for stupid!
I was thinking the words “for medicinal purposes” might have been uttered.
It’s pretty loud inside that cabin. You have to crank the radio way up to hear what they’re saying over the diesel, so if he had that going on, I can see it. He might’ve felt a bump, glanced in the mirror and seen nothing, and thought nothing of it.
The thing I find amazing is, that he either didn’t bother to either check his height, or didn’t pay attention to clearance signs.
One day we were headed to a shipper & there were signs every few feet along the road, even as we made turns to get there, reading, “Warning, 11′ clearance ahead”. I think that we saw at least 8-10 signs like that on our way there. That was because there was a low clearance just past the turnoff to the shipper & as we came around the corner, sure enough, there was a Werner truck stuck under that overpass, the trailer & cab having been opened like a sardine can!! So not only wasn’t the driver paying attention to all those signs, he also wasn’t paying attention to the turn-off & had to have been going much too fast for the condition of the road for him to have gone so far after hitting the bridge!! As is said a whole lot here, you can’t fix stupid!!!
He was going for the high score?
(Was that a pot joke? No, but I’ll take it!)