kscarbel2 Posted Sunday at 10:00 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:00 PM https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/virginia-beach/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-all-southbound-lanes-at-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel https://www.wboc.com/news/update-perdue-driver-dead-after-truck-plummets-from-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel/article_5a193eaa-b564-4548-af40-3877bb6c0ecc.html Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted Sunday at 10:14 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:14 PM Seams odd to be that far from the structure. Not odd that you wouldn't survive the fall, however. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted Monday at 12:54 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:54 AM 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 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted Monday at 01:04 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:04 AM 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. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted Monday at 01:05 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:05 AM Been across it at least once. Don't like paying tolls so if there is a better way... 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted Monday at 01:23 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 01:23 AM 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. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Yes that is a horrible memory for anyone to carry and it is my greatest fear that someone dies on my watch.Too many times Iv seen the devestation a driver goes through when some poor soul decides to end it all by jumping under a train.Known as a "ONE UNDER" on the railroad it has ended the career of many of my collegues.It hasnt happened to me and I hope and pray it never does but Iv been out ten times to recover trains after one and it is a horrible sight.How the emergency services deal with it day in day out I dont know but I have nothing but praise for them....... Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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