I5 Bridge Collapse in Washington

That's why I give these drivers plenty of room around bridges, guess you can blame the driver who was passing the OS for this one.

 

Wonder who the swh we who just had to get around an od load on a tight bridge. I've had to block a lane for an os more than once to keep dingle berries from causing a wreck.

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I'm sure all the new hours of service of regs going into effect on July 01 will mitigate this kind of accident from ever happening again.

Said in jest, of course.

All we need now is for the White House to release a statement declaring, "we're going to get to the bottom of this and make sure sure it never happens again".

 

To make a future (You all know he's gonna blame it on anyone but the gooberment...) quote: "The People of Washington acted stupidly..."

 

The container had part of a drill rig in it , the truck had an escort and all THE PROPER PERMITS for the route it was traveling and had just got off the bridge when it collapsed.

 

Someone reported that the company was Mullen out of Alberta Canada ... The truck was Mullen & they also own their own escort vehicles too.

 

I posted that when we only had a long distance view from the helicopter at night. Now that we see the images closer it's clearly not a typical shipping can.

 

No matter now....What is evident...All who were involved....The Shipper....The Carrier....And WSDOT..Should be held accountable.....There is no excuse for what happened.

 

Have you seen the picture of the oversize?

Does it have massive damage?

Otherwise, maybe the bridge was really bad.

Last time I was on it in December, I was not comfortable on it then.

 

The picts I have seen showed no damage to the (Striking Point)load....But then again....Most of the picts were taken at ground level and didn't show the top of the load....

But IIRC...The top of the load looked about 2' higher than the top of the stacks....Which most stacks on CC rigs are around 13' from the ground to the tips..... A little high.......Even CO that has a non-permit height limit of 14' 6"....That would be a problem......To AZ which is 13' (Info according to the Truckers' atlas).....


Another thing to consider....I posted the WSDOT's approved alternate routes yesterday....It's possible in WA like CA, that some State Routes are considered "Yellow" if not "Black" and therefore, even a STAA rig wouldn't be allowed on them let alone, an OD load....

So the Carrier may have had no choice but to run I-5 all the way up through Bellingham and into Canada...