Classic Durham: watch trucks get decapitated outside of my office..really.

Another video, ostensibly by the same person:

"Rough day at Gregson and Peabody - first one car crashes into the utility pole at the train trestle, then rubberneckers rear-end each other. The cops show up after 5 Minutes, a fire truck and ambulance a bit later. It did not look like anyone was seriously injured."

And this:

"This truck did not go fast enough to make it all the way through, so it got stuck under the railroad trestle. It took almost 2 hours and a heavy duty tow truck to get it out."

Here's another view of the railroad bridge from the other side:

meets the eye. I did a short career job with 18 wheelers a few years back. One of my deliveries was to Pittsburgh, Pa, a city I had never been to before. I had to follow truck route signs through the town, before finally arriving at my destination. Then on the way back, I followed more 'truck route' signs, including one that said the interstate was in the same direction. By now, I'm relieved to be leaving that old town with small, congested streets, and get back on the open roads. Anyway, I came to an intersection, which looked very much like your picture, and the Interstate sign pointed to make a right turn to go under an overpass. As the light turned green, and a few cars ahead of me turned right, I was near enough to see the height sign on the bridge which was 12 feet! All the interstates are set up for at least 13'6", and I knew I needed to be over 12 feet, so made a quick decision and rolled straight ahead and pulled over. I must have sat there for a half hour trying to figure some way around this, when a cop pulled up, and wanted to know what I was waiting for. When I told him my problem, he said "this is not a problem". Just ahead there was an entrance to a city park, which was plastered with "No motor vehicle" signs. The cop told me to follow his car, and he turned into the park and we drove only about a quarter mile, back out onto another street, which led me straight onto an entrance ramp to the Interstate. I was lucky, or aware enough, to catch that height sign, so avoided that disaster. But I did have plenty other adventures to believe that experience means everything in trucking.

At almost the same area, I came "this" close to taking out the roof of a gas station because I was returning a rental van. I was tired, had been carrying stuff for three straight days and drove about 10 hours in between. That is why you stay away from rental vans.