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tw · 09-21-2018, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Somebody stole the bridge...

View the guard rail. It was not a bridge.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-21-2018, 10:40 AM

Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side?

glatt · 09-21-2018, 03:03 PM

"Bridge" is the new "capsize"

The headline says a bridge gave out, but the reporter on the scene says saturated ground crumbled away. Probably a culvert pipe.

glatt · 09-21-2018, 03:07 PM

Bigger than a pipe. There's concrete there.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-21-2018, 03:37 PM

You can see in the picture the water had come over the top on both ends of the bridge by the way the grass on the right is laid over. Looks like it washed away the road then the bridge went with no support behind the near side abutment.

tw · 09-21-2018, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side?

A rather interesting question. Supports for the guardrails were driven in dirt - not driven through a bridge. Above the embankment and below pavement is dirt. So what is called a bridge may have been some type of tunnel. That explains why the nearside has no concrete abutment. But does not explain why the far side abutment is so high.

Meanwhile grass on the shoulder also implies the shoulder over the 'bridge' was dirt.

Maybe a bridge was once there and replaced by a pipe that was covered by dirt. Therefore someone replaced a bridge on the cheap apparent with a pipe that was too small.

Look closely at skid marks maybe 75 feet long. That trucker apparently knew something was wrong and tried to stop.

Carruthers · 09-21-2018, 04:57 PM

Let's just call it a culvert.

Next.

glatt · 09-21-2018, 05:03 PM

The view from the road before hand doesn't really show what is there under the roadway. You can see the guardrails get a little taller as they go over something. This is 2.95 miles north of the Chesterfield SC crossroads on RT 145.
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Carruthers · 09-22-2018, 08:30 AM

As far as I can judge from the picture in Post #441, it would seem to qualify as a bridge culvert.

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xoxoxoBruce · 10-10-2018, 06:36 PM

Truck drivers a restless, pissed off, over worked, and underpaid, so the yearly
turnover rates reflect that.

Large carriers (over $27 million) = 98%
Small carriers (under $27 million) = 72%
Single and split load carriers = 14%

Overdrive

Gravdigr · 09-21-2018, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by tw

View the guard rail. It was not a bridge.

Whatever it was, it crossed water.

Bridge - Close enough for non-contrarians everywhere.™

09-21-2018, 10:40 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-21-2018, 03:37 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You can see in the picture the water had come over the top on both ends of the bridge by the way the grass on the right is laid over. Looks like it washed away the road then the bridge went with no support behind the near side abutment. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-21-2018, 04:57 PM	#7
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Let's just call it a culvert. Next. __________________

09-22-2018, 08:30 AM	#9
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	As far as I can judge from the picture in Post #441, it would seem to qualify as a bridge culvert. Link __________________

10-10-2018, 06:36 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Truck drivers a restless, pissed off, over worked, and underpaid, so the yearly turnover rates reflect that. Large carriers (over $27 million) = 98% Small carriers (under $27 million) = 72% Single and split load carriers = 14% Overdrive __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-21-2018, 03:03 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	"Bridge" is the new "capsize" The headline says a bridge gave out, but the reporter on the scene says saturated ground crumbled away. Probably a culvert pipe.

09-21-2018, 03:07 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Bigger than a pipe. There's concrete there.

09-21-2018, 05:03 PM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The view from the road before hand doesn't really show what is there under the roadway. You can see the guardrails get a little taller as they go over something. This is 2.95 miles north of the Chesterfield SC crossroads on RT 145.

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