Bolton Road in northwest Atlanta was reopened Friday, three days after a portion of the popular street was closed when a truck driver hit a rail overpass.
The truck driver, identified by police as Thomas Sealock of Community Waste Services, was charged with carrying an unsecured load, failure to obey traffic control device and collision with an object adjacent to the street. One eyewitness told a 911 dispatcher that the back lift on Sealock's truck was up and struck the bridge.
Sealock was no longer a patient at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday.
A CSX spokesman said damage to the bridge was cosmetic and did not affect load-bearing parts of the span. Trains have been using it since Tuesday's accident.
The city kept Bolton Road closed, however, to make sure debris would not be shaken loose from trains crossing overhead and to post new clearance signs on the bridge and along Bolton Road for truckers approaching the overpass.
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