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Resident urges city to act after repeated vehicle strikes under Loveland trestle
Summary
At a Loveland City Council meeting a resident described repeated box‑truck and fleet strikes of the trestle on Carl Brown Way, urged the city to pursue GPS‑routing fixes and other mitigations, and asked council to revisit earlier engineering options including lowering the roadbed.
Diedra Hazelbaker, a Loveland resident, told the City Council she has documented an increase in vehicles striking the trestle on Carl Brown Way and asked the city to expand mitigation efforts.
Hazelbaker said Kroger has lost three vehicles to the trestle recently and described community proposals ranging from physical height bars and high-contrast artwork to working with navigation apps. “Kroger has now lost 3 vehicles to the trestle, recently,” she said. She also described using a routing app for tall vehicles herself and said, “I personally have a camper that's 9 and a half feet,” to illustrate how drivers rely on routing tools.
The comment came during the public comment portion of the meeting and focused on recurring strikes, commercial-fleet impacts and low-cost community ideas. Hazelbaker told councilors she had collected community-sourced proposals including a “must be this short to pass” style warning and testing coordination with Google and Waze so routing data would avoid the trestle for over‑height vehicles.
Hazelbaker asked the council to revisit engineering conversations that had occurred at a prior planning meeting about lowering the roadbed, saying she had not seen further discussion and was concerned the public hasn’t heard about follow-up. She suggested the city pursue both short-term measures (signage, GPS coordination, traffic restrictions) and longer-term engineering options that would require coordination with the railroad.
Hazelbaker also offered a local, low-cost idea: work with community groups such as the canoe and kayak livery on a visual or tactical measure. She closed with a personal anecdote about helping prevent two strikes: “I have saved 2 by, like, waving like a crazy woman out my window, because Carl Brown Way is my daily commute,” she said.
No formal motion or council direction on the trestle was recorded during the public‑comment period; the item was a community request for further consideration and follow-up.
