A box truck was extensively damaged Wednesday afternoon when its driver tried to squeeze under a low bridge in Carmel.
The driver tried to pass under the railroad overpass on Five Road about 2:30 p.m., according to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office.
But the truck was too tall to fit beneath it and sustained “extensive damage,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday morning.
It’s not the first time the overpass has been hit, according to the sheriff’s office, which added that the road and overpass are “well posted.”
It has a clearance of 11 feet and 8 inches in the center and 11 feet and 9 inches on the sides.
This isn’t the only railroad overpass in Maine chewing through trucks driven by hapless and inattentive drivers. Westbrook’s Brown Street Bridge has become notorious for the number of box trucks and tractor-trailers that have been damaged trying to squeeze beneath it.
