Motorist survives 60(??) foot fall off Durham Road

[Moonraker]

Motorist survives 60 foot fall off Durham Road - phillyBurbs.com : News: accident, interstate 95, durham road,

I passed this accident within minutes of it happening. It was scary and bizzare, to think a ton plus of moving metal just missed the roadway, and that the driver survived was a testament to the Detroit design team.

However, the Courier Slime Editors are sensationalizing the headline like true yellow journalists of the past. Durahm Road Bridge is hardly 6 stories high. The steel base girder has 18', maybe 20' at best, of road clearance for oversized traffic.

However, I do worry about Conrail dropping a box car door from their frieght heading towards the Delair Bridge near Bridge Street adn I-95. Say plenty of that in the parking lots near 30th & Chestnut.

[Preesi]

[Braveheart]

Gotta get me one of them cars. There was a guy landed upside down in the Schuylkill canal last weekend
near Mont Clare, not as lucky. Passenger survived though.

[NJbound]

if that's where it happened, that ain't anywhere near 60'.

[Braveheart]

I'd put it between 25 and 30' myself.

[JBL]

That's one of the worst articles I've ever read. I feel like someone heard 20' drop and 40' of chain link fence, and then somehow saw a 40' tall chain link fence in their mind's eye, thus 60 feet. And the comments point it out, but the inconsistencies of the story are atrocious.