Saturday, May 31, 2008
Runaway Crane crashes into car on Nevada above Cortland
While this isn't exactly relevant to Precita Valley, it is on the path that many of us take to get to Cortland.
Here's the story: There has been this big crane (several of them) working on the replacement Bernal Heights Pipeline water line (a large high pressure water main feeding San Francisco) that runs up Putnam, Nebraska, Powhattan and then jogs to go through a tunnel under Bernal, coming out near Alabama and Ripley Streets on the North Side. This construction has been going on a long time, and is nearing completion, hopefully Aug 2008.
Early Satuday morning, around 7am or so, they began the process of moving a large crane that's been working on the Nevada side of the tunnel entrance, to position it on the other side, which required them to drive the crane down Nevada to Cortland, and then up Nebraska to get to the other side.
But during the process of moving it, the driver lost control and it started rolling down Nevada, crushing several cars, taking out a tree and telephone pole, but luckily stopped a few feet short of crashing into any homes.
There are some spectacular photos of the carnage here, and some thumbnails below:
Here's the story: There has been this big crane (several of them) working on the replacement Bernal Heights Pipeline water line (a large high pressure water main feeding San Francisco) that runs up Putnam, Nebraska, Powhattan and then jogs to go through a tunnel under Bernal, coming out near Alabama and Ripley Streets on the North Side. This construction has been going on a long time, and is nearing completion, hopefully Aug 2008.
Early Satuday morning, around 7am or so, they began the process of moving a large crane that's been working on the Nevada side of the tunnel entrance, to position it on the other side, which required them to drive the crane down Nevada to Cortland, and then up Nebraska to get to the other side.
But during the process of moving it, the driver lost control and it started rolling down Nevada, crushing several cars, taking out a tree and telephone pole, but luckily stopped a few feet short of crashing into any homes.
There are some spectacular photos of the carnage here, and some thumbnails below:
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