Accident: timber truck clears protective roof

At least 70.000 euros in damage caused in an accident on friday night on state road 2289 high riedenberg, according to police. Against 0.45 o'clock an articulated lorry loaded with long timber rammed into the makeshift shelter underneath the bridge construction site. A good third of the massive protective structure made of steel girders and wooden planks collapsed in the accident, and it was further dismantled during the night for safety reasons.

The roof over the strabe has a clearance height of a good 4.50 meters and was about 30 meters long until yesterday. It should protect motorists from falling parts during the construction of the bridge, because: about 30 meters higher a new highway bridge is being built over the sinn valley, directly next to the existing bridge will be demolished next year.

The 48-year-old truck driver from the district of rhon-grabfeld was coming from bundesstrabe 286 in the direction of wildflecken. According to initial investigations by the bad bruckenau police, the accident was caused by the truck's loading crane not being retracted. The driver was not injured. He was traveling alone.

Road closed until shortly after five o'clock

The volunteer fire departments from bad bruckenau and riedenberg were on the scene with 25 helpers, helped to clear the road for rush hour traffic, and diverted the traffic. Employees of the road maintenance department were also called to the scene. State road 2289 was closed for cleanup until shortly after 5 a.M. "The removal of the steel beams that had fallen onto the roadway was carried out almost single-handedly by a foreman from the construction company working on the site, using his telescopic forklift to do an absolutely precision job", it says in the report of the polizeiprasidiums unterfranken.

"The truck had really wedged itself under the steel girders", christian portner, deputy head of the police department of bad bruckenau, summarized the accident picture. However, he was able to free himself again under his own power. The main problem is that there is no detour at this point: if you didn't know the secret routes past the stockhof or through the black mountains, you had to take a wide curve. Above all, supraregional traffic was diverted either via gefall or langenleiten (detour of around 25 kilometers) or even around the wildflecken military training area (detour of up to 40 kilometers).