Tractor Trailer hits bridge on Meadowbrook Parkway NY VIDEO...
This took place on the Meadowbrook Parkway on Long Island NY. Many of the comments relate to how the person videotaping should have warned the driver. Which he did appear to have time to, in my opinion. Commenters also mention the driver should have seen the signs. As a CDL driver myself, it is well known that outside the NYC area there are not many parkways. So drivers from out the area don’t realize that there are low bridges. And I see a rental truck on parkways about once every two weeks. I just saw first time a police officer giving a ticket to a rental truck driver a few weeks ago. Why do parkways have low bridges? One legend is that Robert Moses is that “ built low bridges to keep buses —...
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