BOSTON – It seems like it happens nearly every day, over height trucks hitting overpasses and getting stuck under bridges and in tunnels. Folks who live nearby where some of the crashes routinely happen say they can hear the tops ripping of the trucks.
One the worst crashes happened in July of 2021. A truck hauling a water clarifying tank hit the Roosevelt Circle overpass on Route 93 in Medford, bending one of the structural beams and splitting the other one in half. The damage was so serious, it forced the state to shut down a portion of I-93 South.
MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver says these types of incidents have a ripple effect. “The amount of problems that it actually causes both to the traveling public who has to get stuck in those and to us when we have to fix those bridges is just huge,” Gulliver told the I-Team…