BC 99 - Ladner Trunk Rd overpass hit by overheight truck

[DENelson83]

Gee... The Vancouver-Seattle corridor can't seem to catch a break.  First an overheight truck hits the truss on the Skagit River Bridge, and now another overheight truck hits the overpass that carries Ladner Trunk Road over Highway 99 (a hit-and-run this time!).  Traffic is a mess down there right now.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/truck-in-hit-and-run-overpass-crash-in-metro-vancouver-1.2287807

[Blue Bus Fan]

Oct 29, 2013 17:45:39 GMT -8 DENelson83 said:

Gee... The Vancouver-Seattle corridor can't seem to catch a break.  First an overheight truck hits the truss on the Skagit River Bridge, and now another overheight truck hits the overpass that carries Ladner Trunk Road over Highway 99 (a hit-and-run this time!).  Traffic is a mess down there right now.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/truck-in-hit-and-run-overpass-crash-in-metro-vancouver-1.2287807

I do not think it was a hit-and-run since they talking to the drive. Now all the express routes from Bridgeport station are using Alex Fraser bridge until highway 99 is reopened. 

[Neil]

Oct 29, 2013 19:03:37 GMT -8 Blue Bus Fan said:

Oct 29, 2013 17:45:39 GMT -8 DENelson83 said:

Gee... The Vancouver-Seattle corridor can't seem to catch a break.  First an overheight truck hits the truss on the Skagit River Bridge, and now another overheight truck hits the overpass that carries Ladner Trunk Road over Highway 99 (a hit-and-run this time!).  Traffic is a mess down there right now.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/truck-in-hit-and-run-overpass-crash-in-metro-vancouver-1.2287807

I do not think it was a hit-and-run since they talking to the drive. Now all the express routes from Bridgeport station are using Alex Fraser bridge until highway 99 is reopened. 

Stories on this incident state quite clearly that it was a hit and run. I don't imagine that it would have taken too long for the driver to realize that he couldn't quite disguise the damage to his truck.

[WettCoast]

Oct 29, 2013 19:27:59 GMT -8 Neil said:

Oct 29, 2013 19:03:37 GMT -8 Blue Bus Fan said:

I do not think it was a hit-and-run since they talking to the drive. Now all the express routes from Bridgeport station are using Alex Fraser bridge until highway 99 is reopened. 

Stories on this incident state quite clearly that it was a hit and run. I don't imagine that it would have taken too long for the driver to realize that he couldn't quite disguise the damage to his truck.

Apparently depending on whose story you are reading/listening to/viewing the driver did not flee the seen.  I heard such a report later this afternoon on CBC Radio which contradicts the CBC website story.