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Train slams into 18-wheeler carrying military vehicle in South Carolina

While E. Coyote should a painted a mural of a tunnel in front of the truck, the train would've gone through.

Hard to tell from the various pictures, but looked like the flat-bed / low-boy had grounded on the crossing.

Possibly because crossing's on/off ramp had subsided / grooved ??

Murphy cackled...

FWIW, about a dozen years ago there was an unfortunate incident in UK when a series of identical mega-loads --Crated transformers ?-- were being trucked from makers to docks. Working off-peak, each run took several days, about a week apart.
First run okay: As planned and scouted, mega-crate had hand-span clearance from lowest bridge on route..
Second run, okay.
Third run, crunch.
Clearance NEGATIVE !!!
A few days earlier, a road-repair crew had urgently ripped up and re-laid that spill-damaged section of road, but several inches thicker. Their 'notification report was still wending way through admin system...

Murphy cackled...

Brothers,

Ask yourselves: "Why was this load on a comparatively back-country road instead of the high-tech, first-world goodness of Interstate 26?"

Also, at approximately the same time, a C-17 on final into nearby Charleston AFB salvoed a tail radome into a school parking lot not far from there.


Mike

Apparently the load was headed to Joint Base Charleston, which encompass both Charleston AFB and Naval Support Activity Charleston - the latter of which also houses a logistics hub for the Army. It seems the Army does a lot of their overseas heavy equipment shipping out of Charleston.

The collision was at the intersection of Highway 52 and Liberty Hall Rd. in Goose Creek, SC., and Liberty Hall Rd. appears to lead to the NSA.