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| By the time the 240,000-pound flatbed reached the Interstate 695 interchange on I-95, the Baltimore Police Department officers who were supposed to take over the escort had given up and gone elsewhere. |
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| Provincial police said a truck carrying a wind turbine scraped the underside of the overpass while trying to pass through. The truck likely hit the overpass because the load was "too high," explained provincial police spokesman Ronald McKinnis. "We stopped [all] traffic because we don't know exactly the damage to the overpass." |
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| I-29 bridge overpass closed in Lincoln County | Damage to an Interstate 29 overpass in Lincoln County has prompted its closure, according to state Transportation Department in Sioux Falls.
The structure is located on 284th Street, which crosses I-29 between the Canton and Hurley interchanges 5.5 miles southwest of Worthing.
The overpass’ exterior girders were damaged when an unidentified vehicle with an over-height load hit the structure sometime last week, DOT said today. The damaged section must be replaced.
The repair project contract will be let later this fall, with completion estimated in late spring 2008.
Drivers should use either 285th Street a mile south or go two miles north to 282nd Street to cross the interstate. |
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| Motorcycle officer injured in accident. | | Police escorting a large, cylindrical windmill assembly from Beaird Industries to the Port of Shreveport-Bossier had blocked the intersection of Bert Kouns Industrial Loop and Millicent Way eastbound, police Sgt. Tom Oster said. |
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Contributing to the accident was the fatigue of the pilot car drivers and the truckdriver. The transportation of this oversize/overweight load covered over ... |
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| High load meets low bridge | | The accident appeared to have occurred because the driver and the attending guide vehicle did not follow the route the DOT approved for the oversized-load’s transit to Lincoln Park, the DOT official said. |
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| SIOUX FALLS DISTRICT | | Trooper Fox observed a pilot car and a semi-truck fail to make a complete stop at the intersection of SD 42 & US 81. Trooper Fox was able to stop both vehicles. During the course of the traffic stop the driver of the pilot car gave Trooper Fox a false name several times. The driver of the pilot car was eventually arrested for false impersonation, driving on a suspended license, open container and a stop sign violation. |
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| Transformer Moves Down Vt. Interstate | | WATERBURY, Vt. — There they came, down the southbound exit ramp from Interstate 89: sheriffs' cruisers, trucks with "oversize load" signs and then the big one. |
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