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 ...
One wonders if he can speak English and do ciphering.
I wont watch videos that start out with ads
Texas driver? Is that anything like Maryland Father?
Looks like a freeway overpass built with tinker toys. Contractor probably hired former strawberry pickers for the overpass job.
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.
He should have swerved over there. He might have gotten a new windshield out of it.
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
Uhh, no.
Tulsa is 364 miles east of Amarillo.
Check your globe.
Tulia, not Tulsa.
The article references Tulia, which is about 50mi south of Amarillo.
Take me back to Tulia, I’m too young to marry...
And that is a town I’ve been in several times.
Good grief......I’m glad that man is ok. That’s scary!
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.
“I wont watch videos that start out with ads”
What ads?
That can’t be right. There is nothing south of Amarillo until you get to the Alamo.
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