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LIRR trestles' height confounds truckers

LIRR workers begin repair work on the bridge

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | LIRR workers begin repair work on the bridge at the scene where a cement truck collided with a school bus on Oyster Bay Road in Matinecock. (July 24, 2012)

The northeast corner of Nassau County presents a confusing maze for truck drivers, who have to pick their way carefully under -- or around -- four Long Island Rail Road trestles of varying heights.

One of those was the site of Monday's fatal crash in which a cement truck struck the LIRR bridge that spans Oyster Bay Road on the Locust Valley-village of Matinecock border and collided with a...

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