(I have no idea what big penny means.)
The bridge is on S Pennsylvania Ave in Lansing, MI, hence “Penny”. Construction has routed more people through there than normal lately increasing the bridge’s hunger.
If there’s one thing people that rent trucks or RVs never learn, it’s the height of their vehicle (and that yes the flashing overheight lights are in fact for you).
Source: Used to live near there.
…increasing the bridge’s hunger.
Thanks!
They’ll follow Google maps anywhere blindly. Rational thinking is turned off.
That’s how people drove into a lake, under a train, het themselves stuck in too narrow streets, arrive on the wrong country and so on.
“Fools bridge” from Saint-Petersburg saying hi!
It’s just below the height of the most popular small truck, Gazelle - despite the poster saying: “It’s low, Gazelle doesn’t fit” (in addition to a normal sign), drivers keep checking that.
The fact that 22 of those 75 were just this year reinforces my suspicion that drivers have been getting enormously worse recently.
I haven’t done an actual statistical analysis, but relying on my human over-ability to notice patterns and a tendency to laugh at the 11’8" bridge channel on Youtube (said bridge is located in Durham NC and I’m a lowercase t tarheel through and through), most of the trucks that hit the bridge’s crash barrier are Ryder, Penske or Enterprise box trucks, which are rental vehicles available, for reasons completely beyond my comprehension, to anyone with a Class C driver’s license in the state of North Carolina. Also over-represented are RVs that have their rooftop air conditioners scraped off. The vast majority of drivers that hit the 11’8" bridge are amateurs driving a vehicle significantly larger than they’re used to with an absolute height significantly taller than the roof of the cab.
It’s the very occasional semi truck that leads to the most spectacular, and baffling, crashes. They don’t rent articulated trucks to just anyone over 23 with a credit card.
Or counting has gotten worse
Or counting has gotten better
What are our bets on what forever chemical is our generations leaded gasoline?
I love how gnarly the underside of the bridge is. Everyone thinks they’re the exception.
We’ve got one of those in my town. The height is only 10’ 8", and the road makes a V going under the tracks. Long wheelbase trucks might make it through until the front wheels start going up the hill on the other side.
If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents…
(I have no idea what big penny means.)
It’s a reference to how expensive it will be to repair the trucks.
A city I used to live in had a bridge like this in a major inner-city commercial area just outside the CBD. Would cause havoc for commuters because the bridge was for the southern train lines entering the CBD and was on a busy road entering an major arterial.
All the traffic got held up and diverted, the trains couldn’t run until engineers inspected the bridge.
Yeah, I thought how frustrating that must be for the people who live there if that road is blocked time and time again because of the same thing.
The problem is using feet to measure it. Whose feet? What size? Shoed or bare? So many possibilities involving feet, there’s no real way of crossing under this safely.
Big Penny’s feet, obviously.
Drivers are going hit hit that bridge while trying to figure out wtf that sign means.
It’s probably the local name for the monster.
Montague Street Bridge in Melbourne is 10 feet high.
Best bridge in the world
https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
It’s been 10 days lol
So what’s the signage before trucks can no longer turn around?
Bayswater Bridge RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayswater_Subwayi think ive seen that place on youtube before
