The semi-truck driver who hit the Bullfrog Road overpass was cited for permit violations.

Allan Bergsma, 64, from Ontario, Canada, was issued a permit to carry the oversized load but did not follow the guidelines.

As part of the conditions for the permit, Bergsma had to use certain exits. In this case, Bergsma was supposed to get off on Exit 80 and then re-enter I-90 to avoid the ramp, but he kept going, Jeremy Weber, Public Information Officer for the Washington State Patrol (WSP), explained to KIRO Newsradio.

Weber said Bergsma appeared to be hauling large industrial-type equipment.

“Almost like it looked like a tank of some sort, great big, heavy steel piece of equipment. And obviously, it was very heavy, because it went through and then cleared the whole bridge. So when it went thr

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