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By Nancy Bowman, Contributing Writer 2:44 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2011

For the fifth time this year — and the second time within a week — a truck trying to make its way under the Eldean Road railroad overpass didn’t make it.

On Dec. 13, a building maintenance company truck with a bucket hit the bridge during the morning, damaging the vehicle. On Dec. 7, a Troy city truck with a leaf collection box attached was damaged when the box didn’t clear the overpass.

This is third time in a month that a vehicle has been damaged from hitting the overpass.

County Engineer Paul Huelskamp said a study was done during the past year to review options, including increasing the headroom between the road and the bottom of the overpass and making a railroad crossing on Eldean Road. The latter option would be difficult because a nearby elevator uses the rail line and ambulances use Eldean Road on their way to the nearby Upper Valley Medical Center.

The most likely option would cost an estimated $3 million, Huelskamp said. The project to address the overpass is scheduled for 2015.

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