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Texas driver catches dramatic partial overpass collapse on video
Fox News ^ | May 31, 2025 | Brie Stimson

Posted on 05/31/2025 7:08:44 PM PDT by george76

A section of the overpass gave way after it was hit by a crane-hauling truck..

A Texas driver caught a partial overpass collapse on video this week as he was driving underneath it.

Leonel Vasquez and his brother were driving on Interstate 27 in Tulia, Texas, from his work in Amarillo when they saw a tractor-trailer hit the overpass

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The tractor-trailer driver suffered minor injuries,

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The tractor-trailer was hauling a crane when it hit the overpass,

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The overpass remains closed.

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Tulia is around 50 miles south of Amarillo.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1bridge; 2fall; 3down; 4go; 5boom; accident; driver; overpasscollapse; texas; texasdriver; tulia

1 posted on 05/31/2025 7:08:44 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

One wonders if he can speak English and do ciphering.


2 posted on 05/31/2025 7:17:13 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: george76

I wont watch videos that start out with ads


3 posted on 05/31/2025 7:25:49 PM PDT by wouldilie
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To: george76

Texas driver? Is that anything like Maryland Father?


4 posted on 05/31/2025 7:26:31 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: george76

Looks like a freeway overpass built with tinker toys. Contractor probably hired former strawberry pickers for the overpass job.


5 posted on 05/31/2025 7:35:42 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: wouldilie

This pops up with no ads.

https://twitter.com/wandervisions/status/1928649536752214518


6 posted on 05/31/2025 7:37:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: george76

Expect more of this type of incident. It turns out the Unbound Prometheus is in fact very bound by the number of sane, sober, moral, and prudent people willing and able to perform the increasing number of simple but unforgiving tasks.


7 posted on 05/31/2025 7:40:01 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76

He should have swerved over there. He might have gotten a new windshield out of it.


8 posted on 05/31/2025 7:43:24 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: george76

The classic over the bridge scene with William Shatner saving lives but sacrificing his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYoUIO-JblU

an earlier classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3TPgJ6T3I


9 posted on 05/31/2025 7:45:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: george76
“Tulsa is around 50 miles south of Amarillo”

Uhh, no.

Tulsa is 364 miles east of Amarillo.

Check your globe.

10 posted on 05/31/2025 8:13:40 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith

Tulia, not Tulsa.


11 posted on 05/31/2025 8:19:51 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Deaf Smith

The article references Tulia, which is about 50mi south of Amarillo.


12 posted on 05/31/2025 8:20:56 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Take me back to Tulia, I’m too young to marry...


13 posted on 05/31/2025 8:26:40 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Army Air Corps
Oops.

And that is a town I’ve been in several times.

14 posted on 05/31/2025 8:30:48 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: george76

Good grief......I’m glad that man is ok. That’s scary!


15 posted on 05/31/2025 8:33:12 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: TangoLimaSierra

40 or so years agao I was riding on my bike on State highway 20east of Blountstown when I came to the Appalachicola bridge, a two lane cantilever bridge that seemed tp be listing at an angle, several degrees aslant. Detouring would add 50-60 miles to my trip so I took a deep breath and went on over. Sitting in a Waffle House in Jacksonville several hours later I heard a truck driver saying that a dredging project in the river for preparing to put in a new modern bridge, the crane had swung over and tilted the bridge. In Florida there is no bedrock, just soft limestone so bridges are supported on long columns that are pushed down far enough that they will stay in place. Sideways pressure is not counted on. That bridge got closed and detour signs went up a within three hours after I crossed it. I was commuting weekly for work from Panama City to Jax and that complicated things a bit.


16 posted on 06/01/2025 3:22:50 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: wouldilie

“I wont watch videos that start out with ads”

What ads?


17 posted on 06/01/2025 4:55:35 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: george76
”Tulia is around 50 miles south of Amarillo.”

That can’t be right. There is nothing south of Amarillo until you get to the Alamo.

18 posted on 06/02/2025 3:21:11 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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