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Rig In Bridge Crash Wasn't First To Land In Bay

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Aug 18, 2008 11:33 am US/Eastern

Rig In Bridge Crash Wasn't First To Land In Bay

GRASONVILLE, Md. (AP) ― The accident last week that sent a tractor trailer off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge into the water below apparently wasn't the first.

Former Kent Island emergency medical technician Mary Lou Meadows of Grasonville says she responded to a similar accident on Dec. 2, 1981. She says a tractor trailer lost control of his rig, struck a guardrail, and went off the eastbound causeway into about five feet of water. Unlike the more recent accident, the truck driver survived.

The (Easton) Star-Democrat also reports a close call in March 1980, when a tractor trailer broke through the retaining wall on the westbound bridge span. The cab reportedly dangled about 30 feet above the water, and crews needed more than an hour to rescue the driver.

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