A trucker's death on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Could better guardrails have prevented it?

VIRGINIA BEACH — Christopher Scott was driving a tractor-trailer on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel June 22 when his front driver’s side tire suddenly went up onto the bridge’s left-side curb. The impact blew out the tire, causing Scott to lose control of his truck, according to a police report into the accident. The tractor-trailer tore out more than 100 feet of the northbound bridge’s ...

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