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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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!