Truck ‘scrapes’ its way through tunnel, loses entire roof

Cellular, Ala. (WALA/Grey News) -Despite warnings, a truck managed to make it by way of a tunnel in Alabama. But it didn’t come out the identical way.

The complete roof of a Ryder truck was ripped off with the cargo however inside when it traveled via the Bankhead Tunnel Tuesday morning.

Alabama Office of Transportation officials reported this transpires considerably much too frequently.

But much more than nearly anything, it’s a headache for the transportation office, especially when there are numerous signals to warn these truck motorists.

James Gordon, a spokesman for ALDOT, mentioned the driver managed to roll as a result of 3,300 toes of steel concrete.

“The overall time he was driving via the tunnel, he must’ve read the roof of the truck remaining ripped off,” Gordon claimed.

But all those warnings didn’t halt that determined driver.

Officials stated the very first warnings commence with a laser that alerts the alarm process on each sides of the tunnel and 12-foot clearance indicators together with metallic chains that will strike the major of the truck.

Gordon states in this situation, there was no sizeable harm.

“Folks that go in there, they get a glance at any problems to the tunnel, and in this circumstance, there was no harm,” Gordon stated. “There is a cement barrier that operates the duration of the tunnel, and that is what this truck was hitting.”

Much less than 24 hours before that, a different endeavor was built by a transferring enterprise truck, leaving injury to the leading remaining corner of the truck. Thankfully, that one particular stopped.

Several other motorists have gotten caught in recent months.

“They always say that my GPS advised me to go this way,” Gordon reported. “I suggest, which is what I have been informed, and that is what they inform the police department following they explain to us.”

Cell resident Davis Hightower stated it is unbelievable how truck drivers can overlook all the warnings.

“How could they not listen to the siren? And how could they not listen to the metal peeling again,” Hightower claimed. “It was like opening a sardine can.”

It took ALDOT a little additional than two hours to examine the tunnel afterward.

They reminded motorists often to pay back interest and use caution.

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