Big Penny’s feet, obviously.

Or counting has gotten worse

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.

What are our bets on what forever chemical is our generations leaded gasoline?

I cycle a lot around my city and no cap I believe that they fucking gift driver licenses in cereal boxes nowadays.

I cannot begin to describe the enormous stupidity one can found on the road.

(And not only drivers, electric scooters are almost worse. At least when I have an accident with them they are the ones who take the worst part).

Best bridge in the world

https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/

It’s been 10 days lol

I mean, if you’re making a conscious effort to read that totally wrong…. yeah, that’s what it says.

Its not usually “Truck drivers” its people who have rented a box truck.

There’s a train bridge like that in my hometown, but it’s directly over the base of a fairly steep hill. Pretty much anything bigger than a work van is likely to hit it, and I’ve seen a couple of box trucks with the top 6 inches or so of their roof peeled back like a half-open can of sardines.

Sure, but what does that have to do with this picture? The bridge looks deteriorated on that leading edge because 75 trucks have crashed into it at speed.

I am not super experienced in truck driving, but I think the reasonable (and rational) thing if I am driving a big truck, is to not take a chance and go under that if I don’t know how tall the truck is.

It’s also not unreasonable to expect responsibility from people who regularly handle vehicles of several tons to know how to drive.

America has this weird aversion to critcizing drivers.

That’s why bridges have the hight written on it.

I think it is resonable to expect someone to inform themselves about the hight of the vehicle, especially if they are not experienced in truck driving.

If you are not experienced and do not inform yourself that’s just careless.

Most of these places have numerous warnings to trucks to turn back. Anyone looking at several warnings and continuing on, or worse too distracted to notice, sorta deserves the chiding.

That bridge 11’ 8" that always gets posted, has an over height sensor that stops the light to red, a sign warning you that you are over height, hazard lights, and the height bar is in bright yellow. People still hit it regularly.

This is a defense that nobody needs or asked for. If you don’t understand the very, very simple concept of clearance you shouldn’t be driving a vehicle and especially not a truck.

It does seem more effective to place some other form of markers like metal poles down up higher with bells hanging on fishing line or some shit, if you hit the bells, you’d hit the bridge. Place them 50 yards before the bridge