My cousin lives in Hawaii and he sent me a news link today describing a recent accident on Oahu where an Army lowboy carrying an excavator struck several overhead highway signs and an overpass...causing massive traffic tie-ups and lots of unhappy people. The story is posted at armyengineer.com.
Apparently the 82nd Engineer Company was involved, and the excavator was being transported from Pearl Harbor to the unit, after having been used in Kawjalein. An AR 15-6 investigation is underway.
Not a good public relations situation for the Army, but things like this do happen. Hard to understand how it did, however, if proper DOT permits were obtained. The jury is out on determining causes, so no reason to speculate here. What this shows to me, is that stuff happening in Hawaii is apparently not news at all here on the "mainland". If it had been Washington DC beltway or Dallas TX involved, CNN would have been all over it.
