๐ง๐ผ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ *๐ฃ๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐The bridge is an orange-pilled urbanist
PogogunnerSo when is the driver getting charged for vandalism and littering?
EmmieYou canโt charge a corpse
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers.
tacosanonymousโThe driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his ownโ
KlearWas it a NiffTea sponsored bridge, though?
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers
The driver deserves criminal punishment in addition to the punishment of ignoring physics.
Would this be a criminal offense? As much as itโs annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.
Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence
If itโs overweight, itโs not street legal.
snooggumsStreet legal*
*not legal on all streets
It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but theyโre almost always a flatbed or dump bed.
Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.
Do you think they wont be if not for this internet rage?
I donโt care either way, I was responding to a different person who said they couldnโt be punished because it was street-legal but in โthe wrong place.โ I was simply pointing out that street-legal-but-in-the-wrong-place is the same as not-street-legal.
Why do you have such a hard on for punishment? Isnโt restitution enough?
I have a hard-on for accurate language, I donโt give a shit what happens to the imaginary people in the pickup truck.
He failed to observe a traffic control device. Thereโs at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.
If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.
Perhaps the cost of the damage would add up to something they could try to make felonious
puppycat (she/her)but getting into a car accident while kayaking is an interesting bragging right lol
That is in no way related to the question asked. Are you a career politician by chance?
Sorry, I was quoting the article in attempted response to another commenter saying the driver was dead :0
Nice save.
Need to pay the cost to repair the bridge too
thedrive.com/โฆ/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-throโฆ
Repair estimates have not been released, but the owner of the truck company has offered to help pay for the rebuild. The incident itself remains under investigation by local authorities.
The trucking company has already offered to help pay for it. Itโs likely covered under their insurance and the driver is almost certainly been fired.
What about the environmental damage of a car filled with gasoline, oil and other toxic materials falling into the river below? I doubt anyone will have to pay for the full cleanup
Law enforcement fines the trucking company, trucking company files insurance claim, trucking company pays.
Hazmat was probably the third for fourth on the scene after police, fire and ambulance and would have put those floating oil absorbers in the river.
Yeah something like this isnโt some wild out of the blue occurance that nobody is prepared for. Any department of transportation of any acceptable competence level has a procedure for catastrophic bridge failure, especially by vehicular overload.