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badoc

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Dolcevita said:
If there is no effective control and means to prevent someone from driving a 30 ton truck to a bridge designed for 10, then it is a design fault for failing to design a reasonable and effective control. Otherwise, the new bridge should have been designed for 30 ton.

In this case, it could have saved 3 lives.
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Every now and then in Singapore, we still have idiot drivers hitting our overhead bridges.
We cannot be building ever higher overhead bridges whenever an idiot crash into it with their too high loads, could we?
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solarz

solarz

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Dolcevita said:
Perhaps hIndsight in this case. But this is not totally unexpected either.

Bottom line is to learn some important lesson from this accident and take remedial action to prevent similar accidents from happening.

DO NOT BRUSH IT OFF as CRAZY CHINESE TRUCKER NEGLIGENCE.
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Your statement is just bizarre.

There's factual evidence of overloaded trucks pushing the bridge over its tolerance limit, and somehow you're blaming the engineers for not building a bridge with higher tolerance?
 
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Dolcevita

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Crang said:
You can't prevent a London double decker bus driver from driving into a London multistorey car park and killing all on level two of the bus can you?
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What has that have anything do with design of an overpass bridge? Not even a reasonable assumption worthy of design consideration. I will not entertain discussion if you choose to go in that direction.

Bottom line was a reasonable expectation for the bridge over it's lifetime was not properly anticipated and the designer did nothing to meet the demand by building a properly rated bridge and/or did took enough action to prevent over-rated trucks from using the bridge.

You see many weighting stations throughout the us to mitigate such types of accidents. You also see many cars only and truck routes in the us highway designed to avoid these types of accident. You also have highway patrols policing the highway to warn and penalize truckers. There are many actions that can be taken other than jumping to conclusions that this is a workmanship issue or a trucker negligence issue.
 
solarz

solarz

Brigadier
Dolcevita said:
If there is no effective control and means to prevent someone from driving a 30 ton truck to a bridge designed for 10, then it is a design fault for failing to design a reasonable and effective control. Otherwise, the new bridge should have been designed for 30 ton.

In this case, it could have saved 3 lives.
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What's an effective design that can prevent people from breaking the law? I'm sure lots of people in the government would love to hear it.
 
solarz

solarz

Brigadier
Dolcevita said:
You see many weighting stations throughout the us to mitigate such types of accidents. You also see many cars only and truck routes in the us highway designed to avoid these types of accident. You also have highway patrols policing the highway to warn and penalize truckers. There are many actions that can be taken other than jumping to conclusions that this is a workmanship issue or a trucker negligence issue.
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What makes you think those measures weren't in place?
 
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