IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA, EARLY TUESDAY MORNING a pickup truck came breezing down I-244 at a high speed. Investigators say that the driver went around a set of barricades that closed off a bridge that goes over a railroad track. The NASCAR wannabe didn’t realize that the decking had been removed from the bridge to be replaced until he was already airborne. When he came back down, there wasn’t any roadway there to land on and his truck went partway through the bridge, getting wedged between the support beams.
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Nobody knows for certain when this happened because the worksite was vacant, but some construction workers a short distance away say that they heard a crashing sound around 2 am. Some railway employees found the truck dangling over their roadbed at 3 am and called the Tulsa FD.
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After inspecting the crash site, the firefighters found nobody around, but they did see a blood trail where the driver has apparently walked away and off the bridge.
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The truck was eventually lowered by a towing company down to the railroad tracks after a deep bed of gravel was laid below it. Oklahoma troopers are looking for the driver.
KJRH-TV Ch. 2 posted this video report from the scene:
Channel 9 has the story and two more good videos HERE.
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