I had a good friend at work killed by just such an oil rig truck. They were on US 75 in Dallas, N. bound. Truck was in the right land and he was the passenger in a car in the left lane overtaking the truck.
The truck's load, a pipe stand of some sort, square and tall, hit the bridge and fell onto the car crushing him.
The overpasses were quite low at the time and were curved with the right lane, where the truck was, the lowest. They have since upgraded the road in that area and all the low bridges are gone......as are the idiotic entrance ramps where you had to have a 300Z Datsun to get going fast enough on the ramp to blend with traffic. They even installed traffic lights which would monitor the oncoming traffic and give you a green light ahead of time to get going so as to blend in.
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