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#5– Water tanker collapses a portion of Pollocks Mill Bridge
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An overweight tanker truck carrying water to a natural gas drilling site collapsed a portion of the four-ton, weight-restricted Pollocks Mill Bridge on Sept. 28.
The driver of the truck, Jason W. Strawderman, 38, of Beverly, W.Va., pleaded guilty Oct. 9 to disobeying a traffic control device and operating a vehicle that exceeded the weight restriction. He was fined $10,297.
Strawderman was hauling water from the Monongahela River to an EQT well site on Pollocks Mill Road when he attempted to cross the bridge. Strawderman told police his global positioning system led him to the bridge and he did not see the weight restriction signs.
It took two days to remove the truck from the bridge and required the use of two heavy-duty tow trucks operating in tandem. The process also required a temporary gas shut-off to about 4,500 customers of the People’s Natural Gas Co., whose gas line crossed the bridge.