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If you saw it live on television, you probably were rooted to the floor with your mouth open. You were terrified and in awe. Two passenger cars, a pickup truck and an 18 wheeler crashed on the 2nd Street Bridge in Louisville across the Ohio River. The 18 wheeler was hanging off the side of the bridge with the driver in the cab.
When the news cut into the accident, this is the image that was broadcast:
BREAKING: Semi-truck driver safe following dramatic rescue on the second street bridge in Louisville, KY.
The entire truck and about three quarters of the trailer were hanging off the bridge after crashing through the guardrail. pic.twitter.com/hahftxYe8c
— Breaking 4 News (@Breaking_4_News) March 1, 2024
Holy smoke. More than 99% of us wouldn’t even have a clue what to do. Louisville Fire and Rescue and Emergency Medical Services were there quickly. Two persons from the cars were transported to local hospitals. These men and women are not neanderthals or some threat to Democracy. They work hard and are the reason our Republic survives. Here is how the AP wrote it up:
The driver of a semi-truck was pulled to safety Friday by firefighters following a crash that left the vehicle dangling over a bridge across the Ohio River.
The three-vehicle crash on the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge connecting Louisville, Kentucky to southern Indiana was reported around noon, Louisville Fire Chief Brian O’Neill said during a press conference. One other person involved in the crash was immediately taken to the hospital and crews set up to rescue the truck driver from the cab.
It took about 40 minutes to set up a rope system and get someone ready to rappel down to the cab and hook the driver up to a safety harness and bring her out safely, O’Neill said. She was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
“They train for this type of stuff all the time,” he said about the rescue company. “This is very much a worst case scenario.”
Firefighters were prepared and the operation went smoothly because of their training, he said.
“These were some serious heroes here,” he said. “This was some really professional, well practiced, well trained stuff. They got right out there, got right to her.”
I don’t believe I took a breath during the 40 minutes it took to set up the system or the time the firefighter rigged the truck driver up and then they swung in the air trying to get them back on the bridge. Holy smokes, again. The First Responders practice for these scenarios over and over, but cab hanging over the edge of a bridge. Oh hale.
This is the view of the accident on the bridge:
Wondering if this truck with "Fearless" on the windshield is the culprit in yesterday's crash on the Clark Memorial bridge in Louisville Ky? pic.twitter.com/jsSJyYURwg
— Smarkreilly♂️♂️ (@smarkreilly) March 2, 2024
God Bless Bryce Carden and all of the other heroes. We are also grateful that the female truck driver is a U.S. military veteran which helped her to keep her cool as Bryce helped her into the rig and they swung out over that cold (and disgusting) Ohio River.
On behalf of the City of Louisville, I want to give a huge thanks to firefighter Bryce Carden and the other first responders who rushed to the scene today and bravely rescued the truck driver on the Clark Memorial Bridge. She is alive thanks to your heroic efforts. pic.twitter.com/32df5oqe6k
— Mayor Craig Greenberg (@LouisvilleMayor) March 1, 2024
God Bless them all.
Featured Image: Louisville Mayor/X/cropped/Widely Distributed
Wfjag says: Smarkreilly asked if the pickup truck with “Fearless” on its windshield was the culprit. According to an eyewitness, a pickup southbound was weaving in and out of the stop and go lunchtime traffic, hit a slowed/stopped car and due to that collision, went into the northbound lane and hit the semi. The driver of the semi was released from the hospital and the police have said that no charges against the semi driver are planned.
If the accident was on the Kentucky side, the no-fault Personnel Injury Protection insurance will cover the first $10K of medical expenses. But since Kentucky hasn’t updated mandatory liability coverages since the late 1960s, the other drivers had better hope they bought good UIM coverages in their own policies.
Mike says: Every day heroes. Damn.
GWB says: three quarters of the trailer
Typical journalist. He failed fractions in… 3rd grade?
There is half of the trailer over the edge of the bridge.
And the spokesperson in the video got told at some point to use “dramatic pauses” in his speech… and he doesn’t … have… a … clue what… those might … actually sound… like.
And kudos to the rescue folks involved. Having had a regular commute over a bridge and through a tunnel for about 13 years, with majorly stupid drivers in abundance, I know what they were dealing with. BZ guys!
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