"Bridge at site of crash lacked height warning; Other signs along roadway have faded, been lost" by Akilah Johnson | Globe Staff, February 05, 2013
For years, it was a weekly event: A big box truck or bus would crash into one of the bridges along the road winding beside the Charles River. Tow trucks often were on call to free vehicles wedged between roadway and bridge.
So massive rubber signs were installed at overpass level to brush against the top of oversized vehicles, warning drivers of a low bridge ahead. And just in case drivers didn’t feel the impact, cowbells were added to sound the alarm.
But over the years, some signs faded, got lost, or became tangled on the stanchions that support them, according to the former state administrator who put them there.
On Saturday night, a bus ferrying high school students from Philadelphia who had just toured Harvard University slammed into the Western Avenue bridge over Soldiers Field Road....
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