This underpass is ramping up a record of destruction as drivers don't pay attention to the clearly posted height requirements. Take a look:
2 crashes in 2 weeks at 'truck stop' bridge
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - People who live and work near Independence and Wilson avenues are fed up with semi-trucks crashing into the same bridge. For years, commercial trucks have either missed or ignored the signs that warn them the bridge with a 12-foot clearance is ahead.
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ReplyDeleteQuick math proved to be the truck driver's downfall!!!
Many truck drives don't read English.
ReplyDeleteIt is past time for the owner of the bridge, the Kansas City Terminal Railway, to fox the bridges on Independence Avenue, Hardesty and Truman Road. The city manager should have a meeting with them and require them to plan replacements. They not only tear up trucks and create a dangerous traffic situation they take peoples lives.
ReplyDeleteI mean it is time for the owners of the bridges to FIX them. They can fox them too.
ReplyDeleteNo, Bob - it's time that the State and City impose a $250,000 fine on any Trucking Company whose vehicle strikes this bridge.
ReplyDeleteSeven or eight such fines will get the Company's attention and they will then require their drivers to travel a different route.
And BTW, how many fatalities have been caused by these dumbasses hitting this bridge? As a long-time Northeast Resident I can't recall ANY in the past 45 years.
Just put a digital counter on the bridge: BRIDGE 867 TRUCKS 0
ReplyDeleteBob and rival: do you know, is that the same bridge that a motorist drowned under after stalling in a flash flood, a really low elevation spot too. About twenty five years ago. If you know ....
ReplyDeleteThanks, radish
No, @10:00, a Jackson County Legislator almost drowned there once, but then he stood up and walked out of the "flood" safely.
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