The first photo is actually that of a truck NOT hitting the bridge. The truck crash video has now been licensed by Viral Hog and can be viewed at. Here's a drive under video I did in 2014. Ponca City, Oklahoma even has a truck eating bridge. On January 7, 2016, NBC Nightly News did a story on a similar bridge in Durham, NC, where a man has been filming the crashes since 2008. From all reports and seeing the video, the likelihood that anyone could have caught the truck and warned them in time seems slim to none. With over 400 comments, the video did spark some controversy when some people believed the person that happened to catch the video should have tried to stop the truck. Here's a story done in 2015 because of one of our posts. Most people in Oklahoma dont even know that there are FRESHWATER SHARKS in many of our states well known waterways, to include LAKE THUNDERBIRD in Norman. We were even mentioned on the Huffington Post! It has been uploaded to YouTube, been seen in the UK and has made the rounds on many national trucking pages. The video has gone viral on social media and has reached over 388,500 people, with 141k views on Enid Buzz Facebook alone. News Channel 4, KFOR, even came up to do interviews about the bridge. Below are just a sample of the truck collisions and the recent video that has gone viral on social media. Over the years we've collected tons of photos from the bridge. Drivers receive tickets for hitting the bridge and many leave their vehicles in such bad condition that they cannot even be driven. We're also told that the railroad (who actually owns the bridge by the way), inspects it each time it is hit. We've been told that the bridge is remeasured each time there is work on the road so the height is correct. Trucks have been running into the bridge for decades but larger truck sizes in recent years have dramatically increased the times it has been struck. The bridge has gotten so infamous that it even has its own East Main Street Bridge Facebook page. As far as we know, none of the drivers have been injured in any of the bridge collisions. There is an unofficial count that we are trying to get our hands on at this time. It should also be noted that Maine Street is not a truck route.Įven with all of these warnings the bridge has snagged dozens of trucks over the years. The bridge currently has warning signs, yellow blinking lights, yellow trim and a very large, tooth filled, sharks mouth painted on both sides. And although marked with warning signs many a trucker has tried to slide under the bridge. At 11'-4" there are not many large trucks that can make it under the bridge. The bridge has become somewhat of a celebrity due to the fact that it eats trucks like they are going out of style.īy eating trucks I mean that it peels the tops off of trailer trucks, box trucks and more. One of the most talked about subjects on Enid Buzz media is the train bridge on East Maine Street. Photos came flooding into Enid Buzz just moments after the crash. truckers to steer clear of a notorious low clearance 'shark' bridge. Unlike the truck in the video, this happened in broad daylight. A group of helpful Oklahoma Girl Scouts created a music video designed. Photo courtesy Jennifer Hemstreet.Īnd yet another truck has slammed into the Maine Street bridge. The bridge peeled the top off of the truck revealing its contents. An unmarked truck driving east on East Maine struck the train bridge early in the morning. The 240lb swimmer jumped into the cold ocean and began the swim under the Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday night, wearing only a cap, goggles, swimsuit and a thick coat of grease to guard against jelly fish stings and keep him a little warmer in the 50F water.Īfter giving up the swim, he said his only plans at the moment were to “go straight to the pub, have a few beers and decide what the next steps are”.The Enid Buzz message and text apps were on fire Wednesday morning. But Dominguez said he decided to make the attempt in the summer before breeding season normally begins in the fall. Last Saturday, SHARK and our partners at the Humane Farming Association scored another victory in our Crush Cockfighting campaign. The islands are a breeding ground for great whites. But a shark is a shark,” Dominguez said.įour swimmers have swum from the Farallon islands to San Francisco, but Dominguez would have been the first to make the trip in the other direction. Out of the water, the 49-year-old, blood streaming down his chest from chafed skin around his neck, said he was disappointed that he didn’t finish the swim. After 18 hours in the frigid ocean, he reluctantly climbed into his support boat as the 12-15ft shark circled it.
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