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Truck blown off US-13 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by MACK E-6, Feb 9, 2017.

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  1. Feb 9, 2017 #1
    MACK E-6

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  3. Feb 9, 2017 #2
    lovesthedrive

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    Ouch!
     
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  4. Feb 9, 2017 #3
    noluck

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    That's a scary stretch of road when the winds are high and sea water is spraying up on you.
     
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    bzinger

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    Was a perdue or mountaire driver that met the same fate there a few years ago .
     
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    mjd4277

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    At that water temperature it only takes seconds before hypothermia sets in.
     
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  8. Feb 9, 2017 #6
    MACK E-6

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    That was a Mountaire driver, and that was on the E/B span of the Bay Bridge on US-50 in Maryland.

    This was on 13 down in Virgina between Cape Charles and Virginia Beach.
     
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  9. Feb 9, 2017 #7
    bzinger

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    Thanks Mack my bad ...I thought it was mountain Aire .
    What a way to go .
     
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  10. Feb 9, 2017 #8
    MACK E-6

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    No biggie.

    Confusion is rampant on this story. Everyone else I talked to today also thought it was the bridge on 50.
     
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  11. Feb 9, 2017 #9
    bzinger

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    I think that was the bridge I used to go over when I went to Burris in federalsburg ..didn't like it either .
     
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  12. Feb 9, 2017 #10
    MACK E-6

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    That one's high, but the vast majority of the time the wind is coming out of the west. That means you have a headwind as opposed to a cross wind. I know which one I'd rather deal with.

    Now, the one further down 50 crossing the Choptank river coming out of Cambridge made me a little nervous today, since that one runs due north/south.
     
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