And people make fun of me for being afraid of driving over the Bay Bridge

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bal-baybridge0810-story,0,7719693.story

The driver of a tractor trailer was killed early this morning as a result of a three-vehicle collision that caused the 18-wheeler to plunge into the Chesapeake Bay, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.

Two people in one of the cars involved, a Chevrolet Camaro, were flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. One is listed in serious condition, and the other is in serious but stable condition. The driver of the second car, a Toyota Prius, was not injured in the 3:55 a.m. crash.

Few details about the accident were available as of noon, including the identity of the victims, said authority police spokesman Cpl. Jonathan Green. But he said it was the first time in his 15 years with the agency that a vehicle had gone over the side of the bridge.

The accident occurred on the eastbound span of the bridge, where two-way traffic was in operation while the westbound span was closed for maintenance. The tractor trailer was heading westbound when the driver struck the jersey wall a half-mile from the Kent Island side of the bridge and fell into the bay. It is not yet clear how the other two vehicles were involved.

This:



Is the Bay Bridge

And the only thing scary about it is the nagging fear that a decent earthquake would knock it into the bay. Well, that and traffic.

Oh wait, that was the Golden Gate bridge...

Anyhow, the Golden Gate lasts for hundreds of years. I know that because you see it in Star Trek IV when they save the whales. ;)

I forget the movie - Hillary Swank is in it. Somehow the Earth's core stops moving, and they have to go jump start it.

Stupid movie, but the GG Bridge melts because of radiation.

Yours isn't the only bay in the world, ya know. :P

edit: Erm, this was meant for Taverner above me. :rofl:

/NorCal conceit

is so much better than your warm and beautiful bay.

:D

It's fed by snow melt from the Sierra. For that matter, the ocean is freezing cold here, because the current comes down from Alaska.

It is beautiful though. :)

It's a big bay - too far to go to find a nice park with a bayview

:P

Actually, it is pretty, but so dirty.

the semi driver walks away and the drivers of the small vehicles aren't so lucky. If I were you I would stick to bridges.

my luck, it would have been me in the water.

For some reason if someone else is driving it doesn't bother me..But I'm always afraid of plunging over the side like that..ugh..I don't recall ever really seeing that happen before.
Man I bet the traffic coming home from the Eastern Shore was a BEAR because of that...:scared:

PS--Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the world for you left coast haters...:P

and it took me four hours to get from the Severn River Bridge to the other side of the Bay Bridge.

I am sooo tired.

Holy crap! And man that must of been freaky sitting there on the bridge seeing the truck in the water. Yikes!
:scared:

And a guest just came to the hotel I work at and told me it took them 11 hours to get here from Manassas. :o

The Bay Bridge is 187 feet tall and four miles long. How's that one look?

:scared:

BUt I'd prefer being on a plane with one engine on fire than to be driving over that one!!

were about themselves and what it was doing to their days! No sympathy for victims. Nada.

Boy, Americans are a bunch of narcissistic jerks.


Bernie McManigal, 40, of Terrytown, Pa., sat dejected in a pickup truck around 2 p.m. while another passenger got out and started walking a dog on the shoulder of the road.

"We're wasting my beach time," she said before traffic inched ahead again.

I didn't know what it was about until I saw the truck in the water. Maybe it was the same for those people.

But if he was looking for that selfish reaction, then maybe not. And the authorities didn't release what actually happened until late this morning.

I have to keep my eyes straight ahead and try not to think about where I am when I cross the Mississippi, on any bridge. It's so wide, if I fell in in the middle I'd never make it to shore. So, it strikes me as a reasonable reaction.

The last time I crossed the river, a truck blew a tire right in front me just as we were going up on the I-80 bridge. I was dodging huge pieces of rubber, all the while thnking of the river beneath me. I was more than nervous that time!!

Yep, perfectly reasonable.

There's one here over the Potomac on 301 that really freaks me out. Two lanes, way up. Tractor trailors just a foot away. :scared: