On May 20th, a police vehicle crashed on the southbound lanes of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Wednesday afternoon and flipped over the guardrail. No other vehicles were involved and the officer involved in the crash was not seriously injured and the cause of the crash is under investigation.
The officer driving was found to have suffered a health-related medical emergency just before the accident. No other information was released… Case Closed!
Yeah that’s what I worry about. I tell the wife be ready to grab the wheel. Makes her feel real good.
Is this the same one previously reported or a second one.
Off topic but appears to be ignored, today is the D Day anniversary, 1944. Gas prices and air conditioning was the last things on their minds as they stormed the beach. I visited the beaches and the pill boxes with the machine guns and have great appreciation for all they did.
Was AC generally available in the 1940s?
Packard offered it for the first time in 1940 in a car.
Homes generally had no AC but commercial buildings were installing it.
Not common at all.
If I remember right, you mentioned the CBBT a while back and this is the same accident from several weeks ago… They just never gave an update as to how and why a police officer in his service vehicle managed to have an accident like this in good weather with no other vehicles involved…
I’ve been emailing all three local news stations for updates and this is all that came out, “a health-related medical emergency…”
Seriously ? The news stations can’t say much more than that. The medical profesionals also have rules about disclosing a persons medical problems . Your elevated interest in this seems strange.
A lawyer from Michigan that i follow took us over the Mackinac bridge. He was going north on it. I’ve been on it going south to the mainland but not north. Evidently they have an elevator on one of the pillars that if you have the right connections you can ride to the top. No thanks but if he ever does it maybe he’ll film it.
@bing An uncle of mine was one of the chief engineers who designed and oversaw the construction of the Mighty Mac bridge. 
How so? A police officer has a one vehicle accident on a clear stretch of highway and no one is curious how this could happen. If it had been been a civilian, they news agencies would be asking was the driver on drugs, was alcohol involved, was the driver texting, etc…?
Well he did a good job. Solid as can be but that wind is fierce.
@bing Not only the wind but also the currents and the winter ice were challenging conditions to design the bridge to withstand. I remember him explaining about it one time.
He also was the chief engineer and XO of the Seabee Battalion on Tinian in WW2, turning Tinian into a giant airbase for B-29s.
The news outlets may know what the medical emergency was, at least generally, and went along with the officer’s family wishes for privacy. If it’s something nefarious, you can bet that it will come out, and probably would have been reported already.
Don’t HIPAA laws come into play somewhere here???
asking for a friend…
For maintenance, Mike Rowe included it in his series.
Not where I live. The only traffic accidents reported are if either a death of guns are involved.
