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I lived in the house right by that bridge in the 1980s, and there were lorries hitting it every few weeks. The drivers would usually knock on my door to use my phone to get help, I used to send them down to the phone box at Hackney Wick. One day the driver didn't come back from the call box, when the police arrived half an hour later they prized open the shutter at the back to find a stolen BMW inside.
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Another sub-genre of this topic is the tall vehicle crash into a low bridge. Mostly this is performed by drivers of buses or coaches, but I've occasionally seen lorry drivers do it, too.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/roof-ripped-off-doubledecker-in-crash-with-rail-bridge-in-west-london-10108486.html
Some places get it more often than others; the railway bridge across Kenworthy Road, E9, gets done every couple of years, for instance.