Remember when your math teacher said geometry would come in handy one day?
Well, someone tried to put a 9-foot-tall U-Haul truck into a 7-foot-tall covered bridge near Smyrna over the weekend. And, as dictated by the law of arithmetic and physics and common sense, it didn’t work.
Ross Cavitt, Cobb spokesman, said this is the fifth time the Concord Road Bridge's protective metal beam has been hit since the bridge re-opened in mid-December, after an $802,959 revamp in May 2017 funded by the 2016 SPLOST, or Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, that took four months.
The bridge had been starting to lean after nearly a century and a half of taking traffic across Nickajack Creek. The structure joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The county posted a photo on Facebook of the U-Haul and the damaged beam on Sunday. The 145-year-old covered bridge wasn't damaged but the warning beam was knocked down.
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There is a radar-detecting, flashing LED light sign up on the Smyrna side of the bridge. A similar sign for the Mableton side, where most of the recent incidents have happened, should be up before second week of May, according to Cavitt.
Before this weekend, the last time a hit happened was less than two weeks ago.
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