UPDATE: Truck Driver Dies After Near Collision with Car
The driver of a semi-truck died after an accident at Nicholson and 5-Mile Road Saturday afternoon.
Updated at 8:45 a.m. Sunday to include identification of drivers The driver of a semi-truck has died after his vehicle rolled into a ditch Saturday afternoon at Nicholson and 5-Mile Road. According to a story in The Journal Times, the truck driver was traveling south on Nicholson when a woman driving east on 5-Mile may have pulled out in front of him. Reports from the Caledonia Fire Department indicate the car was stopped at a stop sign but the truck didn't have a stop sign. The female driver might not have realized the truck wasn't stopping as she continued through the intersection. The semi driver struck the car and then veered off the road and into the ditch. After extracating the truck driver, his injuries were catalogued as a compound…
Runninghot88
2:01 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
The road construction is a big deal with people not knowing where they are going. That particular interstate (very familiar) with the way she was going would have been able to see on-coming traffic. It was a catch-22 had he not swerved to avoid hitting her she wouold have died. And instead of just saying God Bless the firefighters perhaps you should thank the police who are on-scene before the … more ›