Nine of the truck crashes happened this year, but the issues with the bridge go back decades. Since 2020, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department has taken at least 40 reports for trucks crashing into the 12-foot clearance bridge between Wilson and White Avenues.
'At least 10 times I can count it's not been cleared and a semi hit it or a big truck went right into it,' he said. Jack McCormick/KSHB 41 The Independence Ave.