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Perdue truck driver dead in Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel overboard crash


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That can be a ride crossing the CBBT. l was coming north one night and it was raining, then it went to freezing rain, then it snowed the last five miles before Delaware. Have a picture some where taken looking over the hood of the R model just before going into one of the tunnels. There was a super tanker ship crossing the tunnel made it look like the Bulldog was going to hit the side of the ship.    .....Hippy 

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I was on the cbbt twice. Once going into Virginia, and once coming back north. Both times the people I was with made sure I drank a pint of jack dainiels before pouring me into a bunk in the back of the rv knowing my fear of bridges. 

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when you are up to your armpits in alligators,

it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp..

A friend was northbound in a WS712LST Cruise-Liner. Headed down into the first CBBT tunnel (Thimble Shoal Channel tunnel) and there was a woman in a stalled car down at the flat bottom. He couldn't see her initially because the tunnel's curvature blocked direct vision of the car. He locked up the brakes. No Dynatard but that wouldn't have helped enough. He couldn't go around her because there were oncoming vehicles. It was an impossible scenario. He wasn't charged but it's a horrible memory to carry.

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