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Title: Trucker Destroys Historic Bridge Because She Didn't Know How Many Pounds Six Tons Was
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URL Source: http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/23-ye ... h-1749930189?rev=1451328651253
Published: Jan 1, 2016
Author: Raphael Orlove
Post Date: 2016-01-01 07:40:27 by Hondo68
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Views: 2547
Comments: 5
The craziest part isn’t that 23-year-old Mary Lambright drove her 30-ton truck onto this tiny bridge in Paoli, Indiana built in 1880. It’s that she knew that the bridge’s weight limit was six tons. She just didn’t know how many pounds that was.
Seriously, that’s what she told the police after the crash on Christmas, as they note in their report:
Ms. Lambright was aware of the iron bridge stating she had driven on it several times in her personal vehicle and was also aware of the posted signage “no semis, weight limit of 6 tons”. When asked by Paoli Police why she continued through the bridge knowing the weight limit was only 6 tons she admitted to not knowing how many pounds that was. She was advised the weight of the vehicle at the time of the crash was close to 30 tons.
Lambright, who got her CDL earlier this year, said she wasn’t comfortable backing up her Volvo truck, so she just chanced it on the bridge.
That bet didn’t exactly pay out.
BangShift reports that Lambright’s company will be the one that will be in a real heap of legal crap for this, though Lambright herself should expect a $135 fine for her citations of “reckless operation of Tractor-Trailer” (a class B misdemeanor), “disregarding a traffic control device” (a class B infraction), and “overweight on posted bridge.”
The real mystery here is how she got her CDL. Lambright was uninjured.
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Public school FAIL....... but I'm sure Common Core will help.... /sarc
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
" Trucker Destroys Historic Bridge Because She Didn't Know How Many Pounds Six Tons Was "
Not only was she overweight, she did not have proper clearance either.
DUMB !!!!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
#3. To: Stoner (#2)
said she wasn’t comfortable backing up her Volvo truck, so she just chanced it on the bridge
Sort of like the al-CIA-da 9/11 pilots, who could fly but not land.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
Minor damage. You can just buff that out.
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
And there's no truth to the rumor that she's signed on to next season's "Ice Road Truckers" on the History Channel.
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . "
~Psalm 33:12a
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