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California · 2025-10-30T13:53:23-0400

BigBlue1 said:
I-90 in WA state this week. Bridge is totaled.

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It was fuel or oil. It was a ConocoPhillips truck coming from Alaska

BigBlue1 · 2025-10-30T14:27:36-0400

BigBlue1 said:
Let's get back on track here.

I-90 in WA state this week. Bridge is totaled.

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Can imagine the driver as he's approaching the bridge...

"That looks a little looo... hollllllyy... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!. Uh oh."

QRTRHRS · 2025-10-30T15:04:49-0400

I doubt that this poor soul even had time to think about his dump bed pto being engaged?

Jstpssng · 2025-10-30T16:33:03-0400

QRTRHRS said:
I doubt that this poor soul even had time to think about his dump bed pto being engaged?

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ning · 2025-10-30T16:40:55-0400

Jstpssng said:
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If you're on a computer, reload and hit ESC many times before that banner pops up. On mobile you may be able to hit the reload and then quickly hit the X that it turns into to avoid seeing the banner which blocks reading.

Shawn T. W. · 2025-10-30T16:46:42-0400

Jstpssng said:
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I didn't have any problems at all opening it up and reading it ... No pictures.

Notice the date ... !

By The Morning Call
PUBLISHED: November 14, 1984 at 5:00 AM EST | UPDATED: October 1, 2021 at 10:46 PM EDT

A 46-year-old Easton truck driver was killed yesterday morning after an overhead railroad bridge he struck collapsed and crushed the cab of his dump truck on Route 512 just south of Bath in East Allen Township.

Claude R. Flannigan, of 490 Williams St., was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:25 a.m. by Northampton County Deputy Coroner Gene Schoch.

Schoch said an autopsy will be performed today in Easton Hospital to determine the cause of death.

State police at Bethlehem reported that Flannigan was an employee of the Joseph Ciccone and Sons contracting business, whose main office is on Route 512 about two blocks from the accident scene. They said the truck was owned by Flannigan.

Troopers said Flannigan reportedly left the office shortly after 8:30 a.m. and was en route to Nazareth to pick up a load of blacktop.

They said that as he was traveling north on Route 512, the back section of the truck began to rise and punctured a hole in the unused railroad bridge. The impact dislodged the eastern end of the bridge and it fell onto and crushed the cab of the truck. A sign on the bridge warned that the clearance was 13 feet, 6 inches.

A large front-end loader from the Ciccone company lifted the bridge off the cab of the truck while another front-end loader pulled the vehicle from underneath the bridge.

Fire fighters and rescue workers from East Allen, Allen and Hanover townships, using the jaws of life, worked for almost an hour to free the body from the wreckage.

After the body was removed, the large front-end loader lowered the entire bridge onto the roadway. Ciccone company workers burned a hole in the steel bridge, chained it to the front-end loader and then dragged it up the roadway to the Ciccone plant.

Route 512 in the area of the accident was closed to traffic for about two hours until the bridge and wreckage was removed.

Troopers at the scene said they were told the bridge was owned by the Northampton County Park Board.

The one-track bridge was formerly used by the Northampton and Bath Railroad and was reportedly turned over to Northampton County in the late 1970s for use as part of a walking path.