Ex-Amish truck driver destroys historic bridge by driving her 30-ton trailer across it [tr]

Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 29 December 2015

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A historic iron bridge was destroyed when a 23-year woman drove her 30-ton trailer across it - because she got her math wrong and did not realize she was five times over the 6-ton weight limit.

Mary Lambright was attempting to haul a 53-foot box trailer containing 43,000 pounds of bottled water to a Walmart parking lot with her Volvo truck on Christmas Day in Paoli, Indiana.

She drove onto the iron 1880 structure and immediately hit the top of the bridge as her truck was too high. The structure then buckled the under the pressure and collapsed at around 12 noon.

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Lambright, of Fredericksburg, told police she knew the iron bridge had a weight limit of six tons and wasn't equipped for semis due to a sign that was posted, but said she didn't know how many pounds were in six tons.

Lambright and her 17-year-old cousin who was in the passenger seat managed to escape unharmed.

'She's a very inexperienced driver,' Paoli Police Chief Randy Sanders said of Lambright explaining that she had left the Amish order a year or so ago, reports Herald Times Online.
Times Online.

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[BenLurkin]

Well, the iron 1880 structure was probably overdue to be replaced anyway.

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[Larry Lucido]

attempting to haul a 53-foot box trailer containing 43,000 pounds of bottled water

It's all water under the bridge.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

...said she didn't know how many pounds were in six tons.

Stinking Metrics...

[sparklite2]

“French Lick Fire Department”

Forget the bridge. Tell me
more about the French Lick.

[Responsibility2nd]

Ex-Amish???

I know Michael Jackson went from black to white. Didn’t know a 23 year old girl could also do that.

Wait, what?

[Starstruck]

While I was stationed at Fort Riley a tank crew tried to take their 52 ton M60A1 across a 5 ton bridge. They were not successful.

[AU72]

Ask for a third of a pound of cheese at some delis and you see panic.

[Slings and Arrows]

Forget the bridge. Tell me more about the French Lick

It's a long way from Blue Ball.

[Graybeard58]

The Amish do not put a lot of emphasis on education, especially for girls. Marry them off real quick so they can start having a large family. More hands to work the farm.

It was so in rural America generally, Amish or otherwise.

My father, born in 1916, had to quit school after 2ond. grade, to work on the farm. Smartest 2ond. grade graduate I ever knew. He learned algebra and geometry from my texts.

[Slings and Arrows]

While I was stationed at Fort Riley a tank crew tried to take their 52 ton M60A1 across a 5 ton bridge. They were not successful.

I'm sure that the top kick was very understanding.

[BenLurkin]

[Graybeard58]

“It was so in rural America generally, Amish or otherwise.”

Meant to say, It was so in rural America generally 100 years ago, Amish or otherwise.

[Yo-Yo]

No math required. Just the ability to read the "no trucks" sign, and realizing the height of your truck exceeded the clearance of the bridge, regardless of the weight.

[hoosiermama]

Salt deposits — mineral water. Google “west Baden”. One BEAUTIFUL Old hotel that has been restored.

[TexasGator]

“Stinking Metrics...”

Pounds and tons are not metric.

[sparklite2]

In Navy boot camp companies would have to break marching cadence going across one of the bridges because the vibration of synchronized marching would destroy the bridge.
Bridges are pussies.

[TexasGator]

"The Amish do not put a lot of emphasis on education, especially for girls. "

What about this?

[sparklite2]

And if you get one, do you get some?