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re: Causeway SB was shutdown cause of fiery crash on 11-3..
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:18 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:18 pm to Marco Esquandolas
They're designed to have a driver in them. They're often used in slow moving sweeper trains. Sometimes they stop and go, like in the case of a bridge inspection. But they are typically heavy enough, when combined with the impact attenuator, to absorb a vehicle strike. That's what they're there for.
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Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:20 pm to drunkenpunkin
I was just driving along the lakefront in Mandeville and could see a northbound backup from the point of the southbound accident for the length of the visible bridge.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:26 pm to Jake88
Thanks. He just pulled up. Left work at 5:15. I freak out for no reason. It's like my specialty. 
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:41 pm to White Roach
Big props to the two folks who jumped in after the victim. That takes a lot of heart ot do.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:03 pm to yurintroubl
I know somebody who did a similar thing a couple of years ago. A guy jumped out of a moving car on the Causeway and then jumped in the lake. I don't know if he was nuts or on drugs or both, but he almost got run over by the Good Samaritan. The GS stopped, assessed the situation and decided the jumper was about to drown. So he jumped in and kept the guy afloat until the cops fished them out. Crazy deal...
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:10 pm to White Roach
Who drives the bump truck? Is that a traffic solutions vehicle or a causeway bridge/ cop type vehicle?
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:13 pm to Jake88
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I was just driving along the lakefront in Mandeville and could see a northbound backup from the point of the southbound accident for the length of the visible bridge.
Just made it to the northshore. Took me about an hour to cross.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:13 pm to Chad504boy
The Causeway Commission has similar vehicles and employees to drive them, but my understanding is that the fatality was employed by a contractor.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:14 pm to White Roach
Hope not traffic solutions
Posted on 11/3/14 at 9:16 pm to Chad504boy
I'm sure it was a Traffic Solutions employee.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 4:40 am to Marco Esquandolas
Hey, Internet tough guy assclown, I drive it five times a week with rush hour flow. If he was going 65 in a work zone he WAS speeding. Sorry my speculation offended his fellow garbage truck driver.
Now frick off.
Now frick off.
This post was edited on 11/4/14 at 4:44 am
Posted on 11/4/14 at 4:52 am to tigerlaw
The traffic was extra bad last night because of another accident NB. When I got home I learned my knew one of the people involved. While she was crawling in traffic, a drunk driver entered her lane and sideswiped her in slow motion. She said the woman stunk of booze and that after the accident, she fell asleep in the car while waiting on police.
The shitfaced driver is a Tulane professor. It was 5:30 in the evening and she was driving the bridge while BLITZED. Hope she enjoyed jail.
I shudder to think what could have happened had traffic been flowing normally and she was driving full speed.
The shitfaced driver is a Tulane professor. It was 5:30 in the evening and she was driving the bridge while BLITZED. Hope she enjoyed jail.
I shudder to think what could have happened had traffic been flowing normally and she was driving full speed.
This post was edited on 11/4/14 at 7:13 am
Posted on 11/4/14 at 5:43 am to Ice Cold
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The shitfaced driver is a Tulane professor. It was 5:30 in the evening and she was driving the bridge while BLITZED. Hope she enjoyed jail.
Jesus, that's scary to ponder. I used to drive it daily but now down to a commute a week or so. I saw a guy getting a DWI around 10am at a crossover a few weeks back. He looked to be an offshore worker and probably started pounding his alcohol when he got off of his hitch somewhere. Driving drunk on that bridge is insane.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 7:48 am to Ice Cold
What was the drunk driver's name? People like that need to be humiliated publicly.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 7:53 am to yurintroubl
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Big props to the two folks who jumped in after the victim. That takes a lot of heart ot do.
At any given time I feel confident I have as much swimming ability as anyone else on the bridge. But, I have ZERO training when it comes to "saving" someone.
I'd like to think I would do the same, but other than jumping in to race the guy I just don't know what I would do.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 7:53 am to Jake88
^THIS. Drunk driving is always a horrible choice, but I guess you kind of expect it on weekend nights or after football games and that sort of thing. Not at 5:30 on a freaking Monday.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 7:57 am to LSUfan4444
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At any given time I feel confident I have as much swimming ability as anyone else on the bridge.
How does one know that when they jump in they won't land on the car that just entered the water and is submerged only 5-6 feet? Jumping in blind seems pretty dangerous.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 8:06 am to Jake88
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How does one know that when they jump in they won't land on the car that just entered the water and is submerged only 5-6 feet?
If the car is only 5 or 6 feet deep, there would likely be bubbles as the car sinks. Also, lets say the accident occurred in the left lane and the car went over the left side. It could safely be assumed that the car would not be on the right side of the bridge so that would be a safe place to swim.
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Jumping in blind seems pretty dangerous.
Of course...there could be other debris for sure.
I know it may seem selfish, but I have a 5 year old daughter. I guess I would have to feel that I could REALLY help in that situation. Like, if someone said they couldn't get a door open to get someone out.
I'm not the biggest guy in the world and although I can swim multiple miles if need be, I just don't know what help that is to someone else.
Obviously, if it was a kid that would be different too but I just don't know. I'd like to think I would be selfless, but I am a realist and I just don't know.
This post was edited on 11/4/14 at 8:15 am
Posted on 11/4/14 at 8:10 am to LSUfan4444
Truthfully, I don't think I could do it. I'm a very strong swimmer but the thought of possibly leaving my children without a mother would most likely keep me on the bridge.
Posted on 11/4/14 at 8:13 am to LSUfan4444
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If the far is only 5 or 6 feet deep, there would likely be bubbles as the car sinks. Also, lets say the accident occurred in the left lane and the car went over the left side. It could safely be assumed that the car would not be on the right side of the bridge so that would be a safe place to swim.
That's common sense. I might not think like that in that situation, though.
I fish under the bridge and wonder about other debris that is submerged though.
I have an acquaintance that jumped in to save someone and was successful. i'm not sure I could do it.
This post was edited on 11/4/14 at 8:15 am
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