8 Comments

  1. By Tom Brandt
    April 5, 2011 at 12:35 pm | permalink

    My previous was just east of the bridge where Health Media is now, and had a ringside seat whenever this happened. The sound of a truck hitting the bridge is distinctive. Here is a set of photos I took over the course of a couple of years: [link]

  2. By Tom Brandt
    April 5, 2011 at 12:59 pm | permalink

    I meant to say “My previous office … “.

  3. By anna ercoli schnitzer
    April 5, 2011 at 2:14 pm | permalink

    The (rhetorical) question that comes to my mind is that with all these trucks over the years hitting that same railroad trestle on West Washington, how often do the railroad people check to make sure the trestle is safe? After all, there are often daily trains going over it, sometimes with THREE engines at a time pulling long lines of cars filled with grain, among other heavy loads. And the trestle certainly doesn’t LOOK as if it is very safe or well cared for, nor do the grounds alongside it, which to the north appear to be eroding.

  4. By bear
    April 5, 2011 at 6:50 pm | permalink

    There is always a truck sent out with a crew to check out the bridge after collisions. Saw one with it’s yellow lights flashing as I passed the intersection on my way home. I was just thinking, at the time, that it had been awhile since a truck had collided with the bridge, then we turned left and lo & behold, a truck with a crumpled cargo box. LOL! Happens all the time. They should erect a bar on chains that would say if you hit this bar, you ain’t fittin’ under the bridge! Gotta be some way of idiot-proofing that spot!

  5. By George Hammond
    April 5, 2011 at 11:20 pm | permalink

    It would help if the warning and height signs on the bridge weren’t encrusted with grafitti and stupid stickers. Why can’t those jerks leave the traffic signs alone?

  6. By Matt Hampel
    April 6, 2011 at 11:15 am | permalink

    Could use the standard parking garage solution: hang a horizontal pole at the bridge clearance height several meters before the bridge; driver gets a tap on the roof as a warning instead of a slice off.

  7. By Marvin Face
    April 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm | permalink

    Two weeks ago, walking back from the Y, I saw another truck (Ryder rental truck) hit the bridge. After hitting the bridge, he backed up into the parking lot behind Health Media, tore half the street tree apart in the process, and headed east on Washington.

    I was struck most by how flimsy those panel trucks are. It was just destoyed.

  8. By Rod Johnson
    April 7, 2011 at 8:05 pm | permalink

    Crashing into that bridge is Ann Arbor rock and roll tradition.