卡車和公共汽車試圖從橋下鉆進(jìn)去，但馬上就后悔了

卡車和公共汽車試圖從橋下鉆進(jìn)去，但馬上就后悔了

The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass is commonly known as the 11-foot-8 Bridge and... The Can Opener. This railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, was built in 1940 and allows passenger and freight trains to cross over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and like its first nickname suggests, its clearance for vehicles was 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 m). This was a standard height at the time it opened. But the standard clearance since 1973 has a minimum height of 14 feet (4.27 m).

諾福克南格萊森街立交橋通常被稱為11英尺8英寸橋和…開罐器。北卡羅來納州達(dá)勒姆這鐵路橋,建于1940年,允許旅客和貨運列車穿過南練習(xí)刀功街首次在杜倫大學(xué)和市中心的綽號一樣,其間隙車輛11英尺8英寸(3.56米),這是一個標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的高度時打開。但自1973年以來的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)凈空高度最低為14英尺(4.27米)。

Despite numerous warning signs yelling just how low the clearance of this bridge was, a large number of trucks, buses, and RVs have collided with the overpass at high speed, tearing off roof fixtures, and at times shearing off the trucks' roofs. That's what earned the bridge its second nickname, The Can Opener. Some people even call it the "Gregson Street Guillotine". In October 2019, the North Carolina Railroad Company, which owns the bridge and tracks, raised the bridge by 8 inches (0.2 m) to 12 feet 4 inches (3.76 m) to reduce collisions.

盡管有許多警告標(biāo)志顯示這座橋的距離有多低，大量卡車、巴士和房車還是高速撞上了立交橋，掀掉了車頂固定裝置，有時還掀掉了卡車的車頂。這也為這座橋贏得了第二個綽號:開罐器。有些人甚至稱之為“葛萊森斷頭臺”。2019年10月，擁有該橋和鐵軌的北卡羅來納鐵路公司將該橋提高了8英寸(0.2米)至12英尺4英寸(3.76米)，以減少碰撞。

The bridge gained fame in 2008, when a nearby office worker, Jürgen Henn, set up cameras to track the collisions with the bridge. As of October 2020, Henn has recorded over 150 accidents, and has a YouTube channel to showcase them. His project even expanded to other Internet platforms. Thus, the subreddit r/11foot8 was born.

2008年，附近一位名叫于爾根·亨的辦公室職員在橋上安裝了攝像機，以記錄與橋的碰撞，這座橋因此聲名鵲起。截至2020年10月，Henn已經(jīng)記錄了150多起事故，并在YouTube上有一個頻道來展示它們。他的項目甚至擴(kuò)展到了其他互聯(lián)網(wǎng)平臺。reddit的r/11foot8就這樣誕生了。

Eventually, however, the subreddit evolved—it now features vehicles colliding with structures all over the world. Here are some of its top posts.

然而最終，reddit的版塊發(fā)展了起來——現(xiàn)在它的特色是世界各地的車輛都與建筑物發(fā)生碰撞。以下是它的一些頂級帖子。

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