• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine

    Repair estimates have not been released, but the owner of the truck company has offered to help pay for the rebuild. The incident itself remains under investigation by local authorities.

    The trucking company has already offered to help pay for it. It’s likely covered under their insurance and the driver is almost certainly been fired.

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      3 months ago

      What about the environmental damage of a car filled with gasoline, oil and other toxic materials falling into the river below? I doubt anyone will have to pay for the full cleanup

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        3 months ago

        Law enforcement fines the trucking company, trucking company files insurance claim, trucking company pays.

        Hazmat was probably the third for fourth on the scene after police, fire and ambulance and would have put those floating oil absorbers in the river.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah something like this isn’t some wild out of the blue occurance that nobody is prepared for. Any department of transportation of any acceptable competence level has a procedure for catastrophic bridge failure, especially by vehicular overload.