Contents overflowing from a junk collection truck struck the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge near Robert Parker Coffin Road and Schaeffer Road in Long Grove Sunday afternoon before the truck left the scene. | Photo: Jimmy Bolf
By Sam Borcia and Woo-Sung Shim | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
An overfilled junk collection truck struck the historic Robert Parker Coffin bridge in Long Grove Sunday afternoon and left the scene. The bridge has been hit well over 50 times in recent years.
Jimmy Bolf told Lake and McHenry County Scanner the incident happened around 3:55 p.m. Sunday.
Bolf said he was at Neumann’s Cigars and More of Long Grove when he witnessed a 1-800-GOT-JUNK? truck driving toward the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge.
The truck was traveling westbound on Robert Parker Coffin Road approaching Schaeffer Road.
Bolf said cars honked and people yelled at the driver to stop just before the contents sitting in the back of the truck struck the underside of the bridge canopy.
The truck did not get stuck but backed up and left the scene, Bolf said.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was never notified of the incident.
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