September 06, 2006
Eight hours on the road
The Visitors Bureau will hate me for this, but I gotta dispel the notion that Hawai'i is nothing but surf and sand.
Photo by Ryan Ozawa
Yesterday about 2:00pm a nitwit driving a trailer with an excavator on board inadvertently took out the bottom section of a freeway overpass. This was the result.
Here are the professional photographers' pix.
Here are the shots the victims/amateurs took. If you look at the times of some of those photographs, you'll notice that a couple were taken fully 12 hours after the accident.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 6, 2006 12:18 PM | TrackBackWow! I hope no one was almost on empty!
Posted by: Mokihana at September 6, 2006 08:41 PMHoly cow!
Posted by: shelley at September 7, 2006 03:57 AMA month or so ago, a truck went through the rail of a bridge over te Willamette, here in Portland. It was the Markum, which is one of the I-5 bridges - traffic was backed up for over fifteen to twenty miles - from morning ruch hour until nearly 11:00 pm, with some sitting in traffic for up to 6 hours before they were able to get just a couple miles to get off the highway. What amazes me is that such accidents don't happen more often.
Posted by: DuWayne at September 7, 2006 06:28 AMWow. And it's an army truck, too, so the press doesn't even get to pillory the idiot who drove into the bridge.
What do 'ewa and mauka mean?
Ewa = West; mauka = toward the mountains
Diamond Head = East; makai = toward the sea
Posted by: Linkmeister at September 7, 2006 01:31 PM