WIMBERLEY, Texas -- A charter bus got stuck Monday while driving across a bridge in Wimberley, causing the entire one-lane road to be closed for several hours.
The narrow curved bridge off Wayside Drive in Wimberley got the best of the charter bus as it was trying to drive across the water-ridden road.
"It's just not made for buses to go across, and he cut too much on the inside and dropped the back two wheels off about a two and a half foot deep spot off the bridge," said Wimberley Fire Chief Carroll Czichos.
These kinds of situations happen so often, Czichos said the bridge is known as "slime bridge," because of the slippery surface caused by the Blanco River.
"It's been slime bridge since well, back in the 60s as far as I can remember," he said.
While locals know better than to cross the bridge, which acts as a shortcut to FM-32, others, such as the bus driver, end up getting stuck.
"He said Google sent him that way, plus there was someone on the bus who said he's been there many a time and this was a shortcut and told him to go that way. So, he had two strikes against him," Czichos said.
There aren't many signs warning drivers of the impending slime, but Czichos said that wouldn't do much good.
"Nobody really reads the sign anyways. So, they're going to keep going up that way and keep going across it, and that's job security for us I guess," Czichos said.
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