Words and Light

Yesterday late afternoon, we heard reports of a traffic incident clogging up both northbound lanes of I-83 near Loganville. Then we learned that a backhoe being hauled on a tractor-trailer had struck the Loganville overpass bridge, that PennDOT was inspecting the bridge before opening the highway up for traffic and that it’d be a while before the highway would be opened up for traffic. Then we started hearing about people setting up lawn chairs as they waited.

So I headed down there, parked my car where it wouldn’t be a problem and hiked out to the overpass.

This was the centerpiece on our front page today:

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A woman walks back to her car as two young children skip beside her on the center shoulder of I-83 northbound, just south of the North Street bridge at the Loganville exit on Thursday, April 5, 2012. A tractor-trailer carrying a backhoe clogged up both northbound lanes on I-83 for three hours after the backhoe hit the bridge that serves as the exit.

And here’s a “cigar guy” photo that wasn’t published:

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A PennDOT worker smokes a cigar as he and other workers cleaned up the area underneath the bridge and inspected the underside of the bridge where the backhoe had struck.