Port of Hood River Considers How To Prevent Height-Related Accidents

Repairs from the early summer’s semi-truck accident on the Hood River/White Salmon Interstate Bridge that damaged six overhead beams are complete, so now the Port of Hood River is considering whether anything can be done to ensure it does not happen again.  Port Executive Director Kevin Greenwood says they are looking to see if some kind of trigger can be installed to alert truck drivers.  Greenwood says they have received the suggestion of a bar that a large truck would hit to alert them, but he notes that during the June accident, the driver did not know the excavator being towed was damaging the beams.

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