Rye Brook, Westchester County, NY

King Street Bridge over the Hutchinson River Parkway / Merritt Parkway (Rye Brook–Greenwich state line)

Clearance 9'6"

Clearance

9'6" · Operator survey 2026-09-04, reading BOTH bores: 12'7" centre / 11'3" at the end on one direction, 11'9" centre / 9'6" at the edge on the other. The controlling figure is therefore 9'6", and OpenStreetMap independently tags all four parkway carriageway segments beneath the span maxheight=9'6" (ways 1059849430, 1091104713, 1091104714, 1091104715) — an exact match to the surveyed low corner. ✓ corroborated

Carried

King Street (NY 120A) — the bridge deck

Crosses

Hutchinson River Parkway northbound / Merritt Parkway (Route 15) southbound — the parkway changes name beneath this span at the New York–Connecticut line

Location

Rye Brook, Westchester County, NY

Clearance varies across the roadway. DIRECTIONAL AND ARCHED — four signed numbers on one structure, and the spread is the point. Operator survey 2026-09-04: one direction is signed 12'7" at the centre and 11'3" at the end; the other is signed 11'9" at the centre and 9'6" at the edge. The two bores differ by about 10 inches, and within each bore the arch gives up more than a foot between the crown and the edge. The controlling clearance for the structure is the lowest of the four, 9'6", which is what publishes and what OpenStreetMap tags on the carriageways. The FHWA NBI's 10'6" — the figure ABC7 also used — sits between the extremes and is retained in clearanceActualIn as a measurement taken at its own point, not as a contradiction. A driver who reads the centre number and hugs the shoulder in the lower bore loses more than three feet of the headroom the sign appeared to promise. That is the mechanism at a bridge police say has been struck nearly 150 times in ten years.

✓ Coordinate confirmed twice over: the stored point is the OpenStreetMap intersection of the King Street bridge way (108702746, bridge=yes, layer=1) with the parkway carriageway beneath it, and an operator-supplied point (41.036850,-73.675570) sits 8 m away. The surveyed 9'6" low corner matches OSM's maxheight tag on all four carriageway segments exactly.

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Incident history

• 2016–2020 Recurring strikes

  Ranked #1 most-struck bridge in the NY metro area by ABC7's 7 On Your Side: 53 strikes from January 2016 to January 2020. NBI clearance 10'6". The Hutchinson River Parkway bans trucks; GPS misrouting sends over-height vehicles under the low overpass.

  Vehicle: Commercial trucks · Recurring delays and costly repairs · Cause: Over-height trucks on a truck-banned parkway strike the low overpass
  Sources: ABC7 New York (archived)
• Tuesday morning, February 23, 2021, about 11 a.m. Clearance strike

  A truck struck the King Street bridge on the northbound Hutchinson River Parkway in Rye Brook, spilling dozens of cans of energy drink across the roadway and snarling traffic for hours. No serious injuries. The Greenwich Fire Department was notified but sent no units because the crash was on the New York side of the line — the same span, a different state's response. Police told Greenwich Time the bridge had been clipped by trucks nearly 150 times in the previous ten years.

  Vehicle: Truck carrying energy drink · All northbound lanes of the Hutchinson River Parkway were closed for much of the morning and early afternoon while Westchester County police investigated and crews cleared the load. · Cause: An over-height truck on a parkway that bans trucks, at a bridge police describe as the most-struck in the state.
  Sources: Greenwich Time (Robert Marchant)
• July 25, 2017 Clearance strike

  A tractor-trailer full of butter — illegally on the Merritt Parkway — hit an overpass near the New York border and caught fire. MERGED 2026-09-04: this incident was filed against a separate ct/route-15-greenwich record pinned 1.7 km east. The operator identified the actual structure as this one — the King Street bridge at the state line, where the Hutchinson River Parkway becomes the Merritt (Route 15). Residual caveat: the 2017 report said only "an overpass near the New York border" and never named the cross street, so the assignment rests on the operator's identification rather than on the source.

  Vehicle: Tractor-trailer · Driver and passenger uninjured · Parkway closed until evening · Cause: Commercial vehicle illegally on a parkway with low bridges
  Sources: New Haven Register (archived)