by Curtis D. Tucker
Posted: 01/07/16 Updated 02/10/16
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Truck Loses Roof Under Train Bridge
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February 10, 2016
The Enid Buzz message and text apps were on fire Wednesday morning. An unmarked truck driving east on East Maine struck the train bridge early in the morning. The bridge peeled the top off of the truck revealing its contents. The driver walked away unharmed. Photo courtesy Jennifer Hemstreet.
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January 14, 2016
And yet another truck has slammed into the Maine Street bridge. Unlike the truck in the video, this happened in broad daylight. Photos came flooding into Enid Buzz just moments after the crash.
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Truck Hitting Bridge Video Goes Viral
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January 7, 2016
One of the most talked about subjects on Enid Buzz media is the train bridge on East Maine Street. The bridge has become somewhat of a celebrity due to the fact that it eats trucks like they are going out of style.
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By eating trucks I mean that it peels the tops off of trailer trucks, box trucks and more. At 11'-4" there are not many large trucks that can make it under the bridge. And although marked with warning signs many a trucker has tried to slide under the bridge.
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The bridge currently has warning signs, yellow blinking lights, yellow trim and a very large, tooth filled, sharks mouth painted on both sides. It should also be noted that Maine Street is not a truck route.
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Even with all of these warnings the bridge has snagged dozens of trucks over the years. There is an unofficial count that we are trying to get our hands on at this time. As far as we know, none of the drivers have been injured in any of the bridge collisions.
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The bridge has gotten so infamous that it even has its own East Main Street Bridge Facebook page. Trucks have been running into the bridge for decades but larger truck sizes in recent years have dramatically increased the times it has been struck.
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We've been told that the bridge is remeasured each time there is work on the road so the height is correct. We're also told that the railroad (who actually owns the bridge by the way), inspects it each time it is hit. Drivers receive tickets for hitting the bridge and many leave their vehicles in such bad condition that they cannot even be driven.
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Over the years we've collected tons of photos from the bridge. Below are just a sample of the truck collisions and the recent video that has gone viral on social media. News Channel 4, KFOR, even came up to do interviews about the bridge. I will post my interview with them soon.
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The video has gone viral on social media and has reached over 388,500 people, with 141k views on Enid Buzz Facebook alone. It has been uploaded to YouTube, been seen in the UK and has made the rounds on many national trucking pages. We were even mentioned on the Huffington Post!
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Here's a story done in 2015 because of one of our posts. This was on the popular website SomeEcards.com.
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With over 400 comments, the video did spark some controversy when some people believed the person that happened to catch the video should have tried to stop the truck. From all reports and seeing the video, the likelihood that anyone could have caught the truck and warned them in time seems slim to none.
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On January 7, 2016, NBC Nightly News did a story on a similar bridge in Durham, NC, where a man has been filming the crashes since 2008. Ponca City, Oklahoma even has a truck eating bridge.
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Here's a drive under video I did in 2014. Maine Street Bridge Drive Under. The truck crash video has now been licensed by Viral Hog and can be viewed at ViralHog.com.
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The first photo is actually that of a truck NOT hitting the bridge. Ann Tucker caught this Mathis Brothers truck driver turning around after he noticed he was not going to make it under the bridge!
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