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Truck driver was at ramming speed when he storrowed on 128 in Danvers
By adamg on Tue, 11/24/2020 - 3:20pm
State Police report having to shut Rte. 128 southbound in Danvers this afternoon after the rear of a truck somehow smashed into the Endicott Street overpass, destroying the truck and sending the driver to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
MassDOT inspectors were called to the scene to make sure the overpass was not compromised by the crash.
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He has no grade point average
All courses incomplete.
Equipment malfunction?
Equipment malfunction? Operator malfunction? Material failure?
Looks like one of those embarrassing
poorly-timed erections.
How high was that truck?
128 is intended for truck traffic, and I don't see any Low Clearance signs there on Google Street View.
This looks very much like the
This looks very much like the rail hoist of a roll-off dumpster truck (the rail that lifts up at an angle to pick up and drop off a dumpster). It should never be in the up position while driving on the road, but the driver must have left if up by accident. This was a very solid chunk of steel designed to pick-up a 15 tons dumpster from the ground hitting the bridge at highway speed. From looking at the pictures of what was left on the road, it must have been a hell of stop for the driver who was lucky enough to get out of it with non-life-threatening injury.
https://www.customtruck.com/read-this-before-you-buy-your-next-roll-off/
Here's hoping
there's not too much damage to the bridge. That looks like a hell of an impact.
Local 7, 1
Dumpster truck, 0
Wow, the truck almost won.
It was a suicide mission, of course, but ...