BangkokDean
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World's most dangerous road bridge. EXTREME
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World's most dangerous road bridge
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68/70Vette
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The bridge is in Russia?
In the early 1950's, my family would drive to the Appalachian part of Eastern Tennessee. Driving along a narrow rough dirt road in our 1947 Pontiac, we would have to drive across a wood bridge that looked like this one, except the bridge was maybe 75 feet. It would shift and move a little as we drove. As a small child, I was frightened. All these recollections came back as I watched this video.
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Years later living in Australia, I had to drive on a narrow two lane road to my worksite. The road dipped down (a gully) to cross a water creek bed that was dry almost always. After a flooding rainstorm, I drove my Range Rover to work. I decided to "wade" (that's the word used in the Range Rover owner's manual) across the gully even though there was fast flowing water. I was surprised to discover how hard it was to steer the car. The rapidly flowing water made me lose visual steering reference. I had to lift my eyes and just steer towards dry land that I could see and ignore the water passing in front of the SUV. If the water had been a little higher, I could have been swept sideways. Maybe used up another one of my cat's nine lives.
In the early 1950's, my family would drive to the Appalachian part of Eastern Tennessee. Driving along a narrow rough dirt road in our 1947 Pontiac, we would have to drive across a wood bridge that looked like this one, except the bridge was maybe 75 feet. It would shift and move a little as we drove. As a small child, I was frightened. All these recollections came back as I watched this video.
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Years later living in Australia, I had to drive on a narrow two lane road to my worksite. The road dipped down (a gully) to cross a water creek bed that was dry almost always. After a flooding rainstorm, I drove my Range Rover to work. I decided to "wade" (that's the word used in the Range Rover owner's manual) across the gully even though there was fast flowing water. I was surprised to discover how hard it was to steer the car. The rapidly flowing water made me lose visual steering reference. I had to lift my eyes and just steer towards dry land that I could see and ignore the water passing in front of the SUV. If the water had been a little higher, I could have been swept sideways. Maybe used up another one of my cat's nine lives.
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