IN - Driver following GPS drives off demolished bridge, wife killed

[al66pine]

Why? Lots of times I see a road that is closed in one direction, but open the other. That doesn't make me want to drive around the barricades to see if it is really closed, or not. If the sign says "Road Closed", then I exit and follow the detour route. It's just unbelievable to me that anybody would do that. It's like people who drive around rail road crossing gates. It's pretty hard to stop a fool who wants to kill himself.

bbm ubm

Yes.
Like snaking around RR Xing gate that's dropped down, often w flashing lights on it, & on post before gate, plus bells.

Has anyone seen current pix of the entrance?

 

[KaaBoom]

bbm ubm

Yes.
Like snaking around RR Xing gate that's dropped down, often w flashing lights on it, & on post before gate, plus bells.

Has anyone seen current pix of the entrance?

Yes:

 

[AlwaysShocked]

Here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania we have a lot of rivers and a LOT of bridges. From 1963 - 1969 we had a very famous "Bridge to Nowhere" here. It is now the Fort Duquesne Bridge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Duquesne_Bridge

The entire huge bridge was completed to within about 40 ft. of the far shore of the Allegheny River. Somehow failure to obtain proper land rights delayed the completion of the roadways on the far side of the bridge, so there it sat, uncompleted for all those years. (See pictures at Wikipedia)

One dark night in December about a year after the bridge was completed as far as it was, a University of Pittsburgh student drove off the unfinished end of the bridge. He must have been moving along at quite a clip, because - lucky for him - he went airborne and ended up landing in the soft mud along the river bank. He was not seriously injured, just shaken up.

This was big news here at the time. AFTER it happened, the state (finally) decided to put up concrete barriers in order to block access! I don't even remember the young man's explanation for how it happened, but I do remember his story was featured in a documentary about Pittsburgh bridges.