[xxqqzz]

Maybe the "Michigan" driver couldn't read the sign or didn't know how to convert feet to meters. Or maybe he never learned about overpasses, because someone just bought him a license. Probably from Bulgaria based on the name.

[AZJeep]

Surprising, the bridge survived pretty well.
I would expect it to collapse!

They used to do good jobs building bridges in 1893!

[metmom]

“Michigan???”

Why do I doubt that?

[fruser1]

Markov

I guess he thought the odds were on his side.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

There are actually dedicated GPS units for truck drivers. If you follow it, it will
automatically avoid low clearance, weak bridges, and dead end streets, etc.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Flavious_Maximus]

Dragan Markov = Chechen?

Regardless, book him Danno!

[AnAmericanMother]

We have an historic covered bridge here in Cobb County (the Concord Covered Bridge) that has been hit by idiots in box trucks for years. People keep trying to use it (regardless of the GPS screaming NO! NO!) because it's a convenient shortcut.

But it's a narrow, twisty old 1 1/2 lane road with really bad approaches (back in the day, the bridges were 90 degrees to the stream, no matter where the road was coming from.)

The county finally installed a sacrificial barrier about 20 feet from each end of the bridge. It's a big horizontal steel beam with special breakaway bolts on the bottom of each support post. It stops the truck before it can get to the bridge . . . and then they get cited and fined anyway.

Seems to have solved the problem!