'Tight fit:' Dashcam captures truck trapped under railroad bridge in Durham
Move over, Can-Opener and Peace Street Bridge! There's another hungry railroad bridge eating trucks in town.
"Tight fit," said Amy Fox of Fox Farm & Forage LLC, who caught the squeeze on her dashcam while making deliveries around Durham around 3 p.m. on Monday.
Last year around this same time, another truck was removed from the same bridge. The bridge is at South Roxboro Street and East Pettigrew Street, near the Durham County Detention Facility, and often has issues like this, according to WRAL reporter and Durham resident Sarah Krueger.
A yellow warning sign on the bridge alerts truck drivers that clearance is a short 11'4".
Fox says standard height shipping containers on trucks were 8'6", but modern day high cubes are being built taller at 9'6", which is causing incidents like this to become more common.
Earlier this same month, Fox says she also saw a truck trapped under Peace Street Bridge and caught it on her dashcam.
"I see a lot of interesting things while out delivering my mushrooms and produce," said Fox. "Earlier this year I saw Spiderman climbing a building in downtown Raleigh."
Truck-devouring bridges: Some have less than 9 feet of clearance
The infamous truck-eating Peace Street Bridge of Raleigh has a slightly taller clearance than this bridge, reaching 12'4" clearance.
The renowned 'Can-Opener' of Durham was known for its tiny 11'8" clearance – until it was raised an additional 8 inches a few years ago to help protect passing trucks.
As well-known as the Triangle's low-hanging bridges are, they're downright roomy compared to the Bailey Bridge's clearance of only 8'6".
