Watch the first of two back-to-back bridge strikes on this motorist’s dash cam

The first of two back-to-back bridge strikes earlier this week was caught on a motorist’s dash cam as they drove just behind the first semi truck. 

Tabitha La Fountaine Farley was hauling Porta Potties in a trailer hooked up to a pickup truck when she approached the Porterville Road bridge over Interstate 15 near Blackfoot, Idaho. Suddenly, she had the instinct to slow down, and that’s when the semi truck ahead of her struck the overpass with its load of construction equipment. 

“I heard the noise before I saw the dust. Once I saw the dust, I knew that I was having a bridge come down on me,” Farley said to East Idaho News. “The only thing I could think of was ‘Don’t lose the Porta Potties!’”

“You can’t see it in the footage, but (the backhoe) does a cartwheel above (my truck),” says Farley. “I could see it up in the air before it actually came down in front of the truck.”

Shortly after that, a second semi truck hauling construction equipment hit the same bridge, creating back-to-back bridge strikes. The Porterville Road bridge has been shut down until further notice.