The End of an Era



For more than 50 years, trucks have been getting their roofs sliced off by a certain underpass in Durham, North Carolina, that has a clearance of 11 feet, 8 inches. There were so many low clearance accidents that in 2008, Jürgen Henn set up a camera to catch them. The videos on his website, 11 Foot 8, made the Gregson Street trestle famous for its frequent can opener crashes, some you may have seen here at Neatorama.

But that era is coming to an end. The Durham Transportation Department has announced that the overpass, after standing at the same height for 100 years, is being raised. To see plenty of incidents from this underpass, watch the 12-minute documentary OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN. -via Metafilter


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There is one of those on the Onondaga Lake Parkway outside of Syracuse NY. Once a large tour bus hit it and there were fatalities. Surprised it hasn't been "fixed" yet.
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i watched this all the time as a kid. It frustrated me that the show was built in with a neat, namesake strategy twist option that I *never once* observed contestants to use. The idea of the 'double dare' was that a team confident in its *sole* knowledge of the answer could dare the other team to answer the question, with the result that if the other team could not answer the question and double-dared them back, the original team had two options: to take the "physical challenge" (which they always did), or to answer the question on the rebound for DOUBLE the original cash. I wouldn't be shocked if not a single team ever followed this strategy.
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