Once, he was in an accident so awful, it crushed his hip. Monday night, he detonates the charges that will bring the bridge down. Dan Ruefly was the lucky winner of the contest to blow up the old span of the Wilson Bridge, and his essay was chosen from 312 entries:
His toughest commute came in September 1999 when he switched lanes and slammed into a stopped tractor-trailer straddling the right lane and the bridge’s four-foot-wide shoulder.
Ouch. Yeah, that’s way better than my story of being stuck on the bridge twice in one day back in 2002. The bridge comes down at midnight on Monday.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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