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Photo: Tractor-Trailer Stuck In Toll Booth After Dump Truck Rear-Ends It
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 12, 2011
Modified Apr 12, 2011
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No humans were injured in the making of this comical photo of a tractor trailer truck wedged in a toll booth on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The Staten Island Advance reports that the truck was hit from behind this morning by a Department of Transportation dump truck, causing "the larger vehicle to overturn and get stuck in a toll booth as it careened sideways through it."
Thankfully no one was hurt and—deep sigh of relief—the accident did not create traffic delays, because it happened at the Island-bound toll booth, not on the Brooklyn-bound side, which sees the most morning rush hour traffic. Emergency crews needed "heavy equipment" to dislodge the truck from the booth. The Advance has a whole slideshow of photos from the accident for all you stuck-truck aficionados, who will surely recall something very similar happening on the Verrazano in 2009.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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