Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts

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[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

Incredible images emerged of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night.

In the pictures, the 312-foot Delta Mariner idles, still partially in the bridge's path, and clearly looks much too large to fit beneath the aging Eggner Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.

The cargo vessel was carrying space rocket parts for the United Launch Alliance, intended for a vehicle that was scheduled to be shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092796/Bridge-collapses-Kentucky-rammed-hulking-freighter-carrying-space-launch-equipment.html#ixzz1kgpuK4pc

[Moose4]

Yep, that’s the Gregson Street Trestle in downtown Durham, NC just a few miles from where I sit now. The owner of that channel has two cameras setup in different buildings covering that old trestle (built around 1910). He has captured an average of one crash *per month* in the past four years.

The railroad (not sure which one) that owns the bridge put that steel I-beam in front of it years ago. The vast majority of impacts are strictly to the crash beam because it’s usually hit by box trucks that just get peeled back like a sardine can when they meet that heavy steel. The crash that bent the bar, though, actually *did* contact the trestle deck, because that was a heavy piece of machinery instead of a flimsy trailer box. (It’s also claimed a couple of RV’s air conditioning units, and some haybales, in the past year or so.)

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[SecondAmendment]

Mitt will do anything to stop Newt !

[knittnmom]

"I'm not stuck. I'm delivering this bridge and lost the address."

[mylife]

Holy Carp!

[Charles Martel]

“The Mate was a mighty sailin’ man...”

[mylife]

Can you imagine what it was like in the pilot house?

[Jack Hydrazine]

I love the “13 crashes in 13 months” compilation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PkS6LnirRI

I love it when the trucks hit hard enough for the front wheels to get some air or have the whole top peel off like a sardine can!

[Marko413]

"So how was your day?"

[rawhide]

Wonder if they would have made it if they sailed under the middle of the bridge, where it is higher? Hard to tell?

[A Texan]

Unnngh.

[Poser]

Canadian captain. They told him the clearance in yards, not meters.

[joesbucks]

Was the Captain, by any chance, a just hired Italian, and is there a cute blonde in the story... I was wondering the same thing.

[oldenuff2no]

Only two questions. Who had this bright idea????? Do they still have a job???

[KarlInOhio]

Did someone forget that it has been a very rainy year in the area and the river might be a tad higher than normal? The lead traffic story today in Dayton was someone trying to drive over a bridge that was completely underwater and his car was swept downstream.

[Capt. Tom]

Wonder if they would have made it if they sailed under the middle of the bridge, where it is higher? Hard to tell?

It appears they used the wrong ship channel. - tom

The U.S. Coast Guard reported on January 27 that the Delta Mariner hit the bridge when it tried to pass through what is known as the ,recreational channel, which has a lower clearance, instead of the shipping channel, which the vessel normally used.[5]

[Hoffer Rand]

I love the “13 crashes in 13 months” compilation!

Some of those were rental trucks. Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they returned them?

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

We live on State Route 7 in Gallia County, OH. This time of year, with all the leaves being off the trees, and with the river up, it looks like the barges are riding on the field across the road from us! LOL Last night, with all the fog, I kept hearing the horns of the barges from the river. We’ve only lived here since June, so it still makes me jump when I hear them in the stillness of a late night or early morning.

[Atlas Sneezed]

“Moments before the crash, the Captain was seen cheerfully waiving to the passengers on the bridge below...”

[Moonman62]

it doesn’t look like it would have fit under any of the spans

Maybe not if the ballast was incorrect, but it looks like the center span would have been a little higher. The ship has taken that route before.

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