Reader report: Heroic driver on The Bridge

From Meredith, the tale of truck trouble – and a driver who stopped to help:

At 10:30 this morning on the West Seattle Bridge eastbound, a cab/container-bed truck lost a pipe or metal post off the back. I’d say it was about four feet in length. The was no container on the flatbed, just pipes or poles sticking up. The company was Alpine Motors, truck number 17. Behind me I saw a car stop and the driver got out to get the pipe out of the roadway. I tried to flag the truck driver, but he was busy with his hand-held radio, perhaps calling in the incident on his own.

Though I didn’t have my phone with me, I borrowed one once I got to the zoo to call the incident in to the non-emergency line. Thank you to all the cautious motorists who take time to secure loads! This pipe or pole could have been a killer bouncing off the trick and into the roadway. Thanks, too, to the driver who slowed and stopped to get the road cleared for all those behind him.

1 Reply to "Reader report: Heroic driver on The Bridge"

  • Eaglelover April 13, 2008 (10:13 am)

    These trucks with poles are dangerous, one of those trucks was next me as we were driving and one of those poles popped out and hit the freeway right in front of me and bounced over me, near miss. I called the SP and reported it–a canadian truck is all I remember.

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