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 2 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 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 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 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...
other dog Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I've been across it several times. I remember one time myself and Clarence Sparrow had both picked up loads up around Chicago going over to the eastern shore. I think I was going to Cheriton, I don't remember where he was going. But he had a van load and I had a flatbed load, and they made him park before we got on the bridge because of the wind. They let me go ahead and after I got unloaded the next morning I came back across empty and he was still sitting there with a bunch of other trucks. It never bothered me going across it, what I always wondered about was those guys way out there fishing. The water looked rough and the boats looked tiny, and they'd be way out in the bay fishing. The boats were probably a lot bigger than they looked, they looked like a 12 foot John boat to me, but still not something I would ever do. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 hours ago, other dog said: I've been across it several times. I remember one time myself and Clarence Sparrow had both picked up loads up around Chicago going over to the eastern shore. I think I was going to Cheriton, I don't remember where he was going. But he had a van load and I had a flatbed load, and they made him park before we got on the bridge because of the wind. They let me go ahead and after I got unloaded the next morning I came back across empty and he was still sitting there with a bunch of other trucks. It never bothered me going across it, what I always wondered about was those guys way out there fishing. The water looked rough and the boats looked tiny, and they'd be way out in the bay fishing. The boats were probably a lot bigger than they looked, they looked like a 12 foot John boat to me, but still not something I would ever do. I used to fish the four islands and have a lot of fun. But the fishing around them today is not what it used to be. I boarded most of the concrete ships* at Kiptopeake (no longer allowed), once to ride out a bad storm. I walked Fisherman's island when the remains of the Navy base was still present. Northbound after arriving on the mainland from Fisherman's Island, take the second right to the end, turn right again and you arrive at little known Fort John Custis**. Two 16" guns there, combined with another two 16" guns to the south at Fort Story (Cape Henry), guarded the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay in the event that German surface raiders would ever attack. * https://www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/solid-work/ https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/blog/kiptopekes-breakwater https://www.abandonedcountry.com/2013/05/06/kiptopekes-concrete-ships-a-long-journey-to-obscurity/ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1243958772306629.1073741829.293432454025937&type=3 ** https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/Virginia/Fort_Custis/history.htm https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/89836/Fort-John-Custis.htm The guns were massive................http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk2.php . Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76408-perdue-truck-driver-dead-in-chesapeake-bay-bridge-tunnel-overboard-crash/#findComment-591399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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