Report your MVT wooden-bridge accident here. Date, location, circumstances.
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I’ll start:
Three accidents on the Trollheim. Two were approximately a decade ago, both making the initial left turn too fast for the wet wood.More recently: August 19th, southbound on main body of the Trollheim approx 8:45am. This was the morning after heavy rain so I knew the bridge would be slick so I was going at an OK pace. But then I was passed by a cyclist going faster who promptly wiped out directly in front of me. With a cyclist now splayed out, sliding sideways and decelerating rapidly in front of me, there was little prospect of turning more sharply on the wet wood to use the little bit of space to his right, and I did not want to be impaled on the pointy bits of metal on his bike, so I touched my rear brake and instantly went down. I hit hard, bruising my hip and shoulder, but at least just sliding on wet wood. Hip is OK; shoulder will heal, I think, but over a month later, it still hurts to pull my bike shirt off at the end of a damp ride.
By the way, there is a solution to this problem, it’s one that is used on wooden boat decks: paint with anti-fungal paint; after it dries, spray glue on it and sprinkle with sand. If there were repeated, cost-effectively preventable accidents on a section of the Parkway, the Park Service would fix the problem. Why doesn’t it fix them on the MVT?
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