Flipped semi-truck dumps 26,000 lbs ham on Highway 34

The westbound lanes of U.S. 34 by New London were closed to traffic early this morning.
As people started their morning commutes they were detoured through New London after the trailer of a flipped semi-truck broke open and covered the roadway and median with 26,000 pounds of uncured ham.
The accident occurred, said a Henry County Sheriff’s report, at 1:33 a.m. when the driver, Roger Allen Hageman, 51, of Ute, Iowa, fell asleep at the wheel. The truck, owned by Moeller Trucking, Denison, entered the median ditch. At that time the driver awoke and attempted to bring the truck back onto the roadway.
The tractor and trailer flipped onto the driver’s side and came to rest across both westbound lanes of traffic.
Nearly the entire load of the meat was spilled into the median and onto the roadway when the trailer split open during the accident, requiring a lengthy clean-up process.

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Truckin’ Bozo moderator Barb Wyatt, friend to truckers dies

Barb Wyatt, long-time moderator of the Truckin’ Bozo Interactive Forum, died Tuesday, May 29, 2007. She was 70.

“Barb was a first-class lady. Devoted to truckers and others who needed help on the chat room or Interactive and she spent many hours helping her fellow man/woman,” the Truckin’ Bozo, Dale Sommers, wrote on his forum shortly after learning of her death.

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Truck Trailer Dumps Grain On Highway 20

A semi-trailer full of grain came loose and crashed on US Highway 20 near Rigby on Wednesday.

The semi was pulling two trailers, when all of a sudden the second trailer unhitched and plowed into the side of the road.

Some 20 to 30,000 pounds of wheat was dumped on the side of the highway, causing a big mess.

Luckily no other vehicles were involved in the mishap.

The truck was from a farm in Ashton.

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Fatal Construction Accident

LANSING TOWNSHIP – A construction worker is dead and another beign treated at the hospital after a semi-truck tips over at the Eastwood Towne Center.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, but preliminary reports point to mechanical failure on a dump truck next to the semi.

It’s believed the hydraulics system failed causing the frame to bend and crash into the other truck.

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Lansing Township Police are leading the investigation. Lansing Police and the Michigan State Police are assisting.

The victim’s name and age have not been released.

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Woman injured when car, semi-truck crash in Plymouth area

PLYMOUTH — A woman received minor injuries Tuesday when the car in which she was riding was struck by a semi-truck at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Queen Road.

According to a report from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, the accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. when a semi-truck driven by 49-year-old George Newman, of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., drove through a red light at the intersection while heading east on U.S. 30.

Newman told police he did not see the light, and was forced to swerve to the right to avoid a car already stopped in front of him. The maneuver caused the trailer of his truck to slide in a clockwise direction, striking a car driven by 77-year-old Raymond Clevenger, of Walkerton, as it headed south on Queen Road through the intersection.

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Truckers injured in collision

Two truckers narrowly escaped what could have been a fatal collision Tuesday morning in Royalton.

Just after 8 a.m., two semis collided almost head-on at Gasport and Chestnut Ridge roads, leaving one truck twisted and mangled, on its side in the front yard of a home.

“This is something we don’t see very often,” said Terry’s Corners Third Assistant Chief Dan Hausman.

The first truck, a Ryder rented out of Buffalo or Rochester, was apparently headed south on Gasport Road and was stopped at the traffic light. When the light turned green, the truck entered the intersection and was hit by the second truck, registered to Cox Transportation Company in Ashland, Va., which was traveling east on Chestnut Ridge Road.

“It was kind of a careening-type blow,” Niagara County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Chris Carlin said. “It wasn’t a total head-on, but it was more of almost a T-bone collision.”

The collision ripped open the trailer of the Cox Transportation truck, sending its cargo — eight 5,000-pound rolls of paper —careening into the road.

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