The company hauling heavy equipment that killed a nearby driver after striking an Anchorage overpass Tuesday was operating under a state permit that banned travel under a bridge of that height.
The Hillcrest Drive bridge the machinery hit was 14 feet, 3 inches high, state officials say.backhoe with an excavator arm, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. The Municipality of Anchorage owns the equipment. Vulcan Towing was transporting it.
“This was obviously preventable,” Clark said in a message Friday. “I’m amazed that no other cars were hit by debris.”A Vulcan representative said the company was “not releasing any information at this time” and told a reporter to send questions via email. The company later referred all questions to attorney Kevin Fitzgerald, who did not immediately return a call for comment.
The permit Vulcan was operating under is an annual “Extended Period Oversize and Overweight Permit” that applies through December. It applies to loads up to 15 feet in height. The Hillcrest Drive bridge over Minnesota Drive as photographed Wednesday in Anchorage after officials closed off a section of shoulder and sidewalk. The arm of a backhoe struck the bridge on Tuesday, damaging two steel girders on the underside of the bridge over Minnesota's northbound lanes. A nearby driver died at the scene.
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