Garbage truck stuck under downtown Durham bridge

A garbage truck got stuck so badly under the Pettigrew Street bridge in downtown Durham on Wednesday that it tilted off its left side wheels.

Durham's railroad bridges are notorious for claiming high-profile trucks.

In 2009, WRAL News spoke to a man whose web camera had captured a series of similar collisions with the Gregson Street bridge and a growing audience on YouTube.

At the time, police said that similar accidents were common under bridges at Ninth and Main streets and at the bridge at Pettigrew and Roxboro streets.

By December 2018, that YouTube channel had posted its 138th crash video.

In Raleigh, it is the Peace Street bridge which is personified on Twitter and is known as a danger zone for trucks. The most recent incident there occurred Dec. 13, when an 18-wheeler got stuck under the railroad bridge near McClure Drive before 7 a.m.