Where is the bridge?
The low-clearance Norfolk Southern railroad bridge crosses Peace Street near N West Street and Capital Boulevard, just northwest of downtown Raleigh.
Location: Peace Street at the railroad crossing near N West St, Raleigh, NC
Saw it happen?
Submit the time, what you saw and an optional photo. Community reports remain private until an admin verifies and approves them.
Will it fit?
Example vehicle heights shown to scale. Actual vehicle heights vary by model, load, suspension and equipment—drivers must know their vehicle height and obey the posted clearance.
The graphic is educational, not routing guidance. A nominally shorter vehicle can still be unsafe if its actual measured height exceeds the posted clearance or if roadway/vehicle conditions reduce margin.
Strike patterns
Day-of-week uses every documented incident with a date. Time-of-day uses only records with sufficiently precise timestamps, so archival placeholder times do not distort the chart.
Photo gallery
Photos are shown only when an archived image is associated with a documented incident.
Jul 15, 2026
Truck removed after getting wedged under Peace Street bridge
Jun 2, 2025
Truck becomes stuck under Peace Street bridge in Raleigh
May 2, 2023
Busch League: Beer truck gets stuck under Peace Street bridge
Jul 15, 2014
Photos: Truck gets stuck under Peace Street bridge
May 15, 2014
Truck gets wedged under Raleigh bridge
About the bridge
Public reporting identifies the current Peace Street railroad bridge as a 1954 structure with 12 ft 4 in clearance. The tracker starts its historical coverage at construction and distinguishes individually documented strikes from official aggregate crash counts.
Historical gaps are shown honestly: an aggregate police count can raise the all-time minimum without inventing dates or photos for incidents that are not individually documented.
1954-01-01
WRAL reporting identifies the current Peace Street railroad bridge as a 1954 structure. The public tracker begins lifetime historical coverage at this construction year.
WRAL ↗1960-01-01
ABC11 says its I-Team investigation found crashes at the Peace Street bridge going back as far as the 1960s. Searchable public sources still do not expose a complete date-by-date list for that decade.
ABC11 ↗2020-02-26
ABC11 reported that its earlier investigation found crashes at the Peace Street bridge going back as far as the 1960s. Individual dates for all of those older crashes are not publicly indexed, so v2.5 does not invent them.
ABC11 ↗Lifetime archive
Every individually documented strike we can support with a public source. Older records can be incomplete; uncertain dates are labeled rather than invented.
24 individually documented events
October 1, 1956 at 12:00 PM
community98% confidenceHistorical image/community source. Retained as an individually documented early strike; public searchable archives are incomplete for the first decades after the bridge was built.
November 19, 1976 at 12:00 PM
archive98% confidenceA State Archives/N&O Negative Collection image identifies the incident as November 19, 1976. Driver Colby Maddox of Macon, Georgia, was cited for failure to follow a truck route. Noon is used only as a sorting placeholder because the exact time is not available.
1988
year datesecondary93% confidenceWRAL Hidden History identifies a 1988 news story showing this strike. July 1 is only a midpoint sorting placeholder because the exact 1988 date is not given in the indexed retrospective.
May 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM
primary98% confidenceMay 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM
primary99% confidenceWRAL reports the eastbound truck hit during the morning commute; exact crash minute was not specified.
July 15, 2014 at 12:00 PM
primary98% confidenceJuly 15, 2014 at 2:00 PM
primary99% confidenceWRAL describes a Tuesday afternoon strike; exact time unavailable.
February 2, 2017 at 3:00 PM
primary99% confidenceWRAL reports the strike occurred Thursday afternoon; exact time unavailable.
November 2017
month datesecondary90% confidenceWRAL retrospective confirms a November 2017 strike but does not provide the exact day in the indexed text. The stored mid-month timestamp is only a sorting placeholder.
December 13, 2018 at 8:00 AM
primary98% confidenceFebruary 26, 2020 at 8:00 AM
primary98% confidenceApril 15, 2020 at 8:05 AM
primary98% confidenceOctober 9, 2020 at 5:00 PM
community91% confidenceContemporaneous r/raleigh photo thread; comments confirm it happened that day around 5 p.m.
September 27, 2021 at 6:00 PM
primary98% confidenceJune 14, 2022 at 8:00 AM
primary98% confidenceMay 2, 2023 at 8:00 AM
primary98% confidenceNovember 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
primary98% confidenceJune 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
primary98% confidenceNovember 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
primary98% confidenceJuly 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
primary98% confidenceJuly 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
secondary82% confidenceExact impact time is not publicly verified. Noon is only a sorting placeholder.
July 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
primary98% confidenceJuly 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM
primary98% confidencev2.6.1: normalized combined July 30 card to the first physical strike; a second same-day incident is stored separately.
July 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
primary93% confidencev2.6.1 distinct same-day event; contemporaneous reporting described a second strike around 1 p.m.
