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Two more trucks wrecked by 'Peace Street Peeler' on Thursday 9%

By WRAL Staff6%

7/30/2026, 11:40:46 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and False Dilemma, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 25.4% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 134 faulty-reasoning hits from 205 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.6% and a BS Rank of 9% (20,443 of 22,311 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.60% of the article peer group.

Two more trucks hit the railroad bridge on Peace Street on Thursday, known as the 'Peace Street Peeler'. 
This is the sixth truck to get stuck under the bridge within the past two weeks. 
The first crash happened around 11 a.m. and the driver did not stop. 
RELATED: 'Peace Street Peeler': What will it take to make a Raleigh bridge safer? 
Drivers on Peace Street sent WRAL photos of the Ryder truck driving away with the top of their vehicle looking as if it were peeled back by a can opener. 
The second truck hit the bridge around 1 p.m. 
Raleigh police said they don't have information about the other truck. 
Kim Deaner with North Carolina Department of Transportation said that the typical GPS could be part of the issue. 
A woman who lives nearby sent us these photos of one of the trucks peeled open by the bridge. 
We know of at least five trucks that have hit the bridge in the last two weeks. 
So, the question is  what is the solution? 
Are there more signs? 
Is it raising the bridge? 
Those are questions we’re asking Norfolk Southern, which owns the bridge. 
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Loss Aversion
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False Dilemma
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Hasty Generalization
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