UNDERESTIMATION of a vehicle's height struck a second time in two weeks yesterday.
A truck with an unretracted tipper hit a maximum-height gantry on the slip road leading from the Tampines Expressway to the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway.
The impact dislodged the tipper and left its upper part hooked on the 4.5m-tall gantry for 11 hours before it was removed.
The left side of the white cab of the truck was crushed and its windscreen badly cracked. It was found on the grass patch on the right side of the road.
The driver, who broke his leg, was taken to Changi General Hospital.
The crash happened just after 6am, but the road had to be closed for 14 hours and reopened only at 8pm as engineers from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) worked to remove the tipper and assess whether it was safe for vehicles to pass under the gantry.
An LTA spokesman said the damage to the gantry had been slight and that it had already been fixed.
This article was first published in The Straits Times on Oct 20, 2008.
