In 1989, 31-year-old Leslie Ann Pluhar, driving a 1987 Yugo over the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, was literally blown off over the bridge’s 36-inch railing by 50 MPH gales. This event was widely publicized at the time and is still referred to today in terms of the car. In actuality every driver that day had been warned against traversing the bridge. Pluhar had insisted on making the crossing, and officials said later that excess speed was a factor in her death.
I wonder if Paul Shanklin has heard about that.
A bummer for Pluhar. I wouldn’t like driving across that bridge one bit:
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