Constable: Bridge not asking to be hit, but it could take precautions A day after its grand reopening in August 2020, the historic covered bridge in Long Grove got hit by this bus. Courtesy of Kurt Fuqua
The driver of a U-Haul truck that hit the covered bridge on Robert Parker Coffin Road in Long Grove last week talks on the phone while waiting for a tow truck. John Starks | Staff Photographer As the chief technical officer of Termico Technologies in Elk Grove Village, Mike Cubon sketched his idea to stop too-tall vehicles from hitting the historic covered bridge in Long Grove. If a sensor detected a truck too tall for the entry, it would activate a red strobe light meant to get the driver to stop.
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