Some bridges were not designed for large trucks and caused dangerously low clearances beneath them. The following are just a few of the most brutal overpasses that drivers should not take lightly.

Independence Avenue Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri)

This bridge has been extremely dangerous for tractor-trailer drivers for years. They routinely get stuck under the 12-foot high rail overpass in the Wilson Road area on the northeast side of Kansas City.

It happened three times in a five-day period in November, according to KCTV. A box truck driver and two semi-drivers, one for Sysco and the other for TransAm, were the unfortunate victims. TransAm was half disintegrated and partially inverted.

Kansas City's Department of Public Works spent thousands of dollars on signs to warn people about the low bridge. The Kansas City Terminal Rail, which owns the bridge, has spent close to $ 100,000 on repairs and signage over the past decade. It looks like the two big yellow signs sitting on the top of the bridge don't get enough attention from the truckers.

"It's just a big ole boom," Eddie Mousallet told the WDAF news earlier this month. Mousallet owns the Express Stop gas station near the bridge. "There's nothing telling them that you have to be 12 feet and under until you get to the bridge."

Built in 1912, the bridge was originally designed for horses and carriages, not cars and trucks. Railway and road officials said it would be difficult to lower Wilson Road, as the area under this section of Independence Avenue contains water and sewer lines. They said they couldn't handle the bridge because the railroad tracks are already high. Any effort to change the structure significantly will have a huge cost.