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Update 11:30 a.m.Syracuse police have opened up West Genesee Street at the railroad bridge. The truck crash has been cleaned up.

Syracuse, NY -- Once again, a tractor-trailer truck taller than 11 feet 6 inches has failed to make it under the West Genesee Street railroad bridge.

Traffic is closed this morning on West Genesee Street between Erie Boulevard West and State Fair Boulevard. The Celadon Trucking Services truck, out of Indianapolis, Ind., hit the bridge about 9:45 a.m., peeling back the roof of the trailer and forcing the sides of the trailer out.

The truck spilled a small part of its load, parts used in the manufacture of feminine hygiene products, onto West Genesee Street.

It is not known how long police will have the road shut down, Wreckers are already on the scene. No one was hurt when the truck hit the bridge.

Police and firefighters on the scene declined to give any information on the crash.

The accident came one day after a bus triggered warning devices at another frequently struck railroad bridge, the one over Onondaga Lake Parkway in Salina, according to the state Department of Transportation.

As the bus approached the bridge from the Liverpool side about 5:56 a.m., a variable message board that usually warns motorists about the low bridge switched to the message "Oversize vehicle stop now," said Gene Cilento, speaking for the DOT. The bus stopped near the message board and did not hit the bridge, he said.

Cilento said monitoring cameras at DOT did not reveal the company name on the bus. It was uncertain whether the message board's warning or other motorists got the driver's attention, he said.

It was the 95th time a vehicle fired off the warning system since it went into operation in November, Cilento said. Officials installed the system and forbade truck and bus traffic on the parkway after a series of strikes on the bridge, including the 2010 crash of a double-decker bus that killed four people.

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See Susan Hall's photo from the scene.

Read about other trucks that struck the West Genesee Street bridge.

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