Monday afternoon at about 4:43 PM on Highway 12 this semi was carrying a trailer full of cows from Canada, headed to the Tyson Foods plant at Wallula. As the semi approached the last intersection, Sacajewea Park Road, a white Chevy Cruze was coming the other way, attempting a left turn across the median to go south on Sacajewea Park Road.
Bear in mind, it was snowing and slick, the Cruze left the well-traveled highway lane to pull into the median intersection, where the driver immediately encountered more snow and started having trouble continuing. On dry pavement, he would have been long gone before the semi came by. Under the slick conditions, he found himself crawling out of the median area and into the path of the semi.
The Bovine Express had no way to stop in time after the Cruze emerged onto the eastbound lanes in front of it. The driver moved left into the median, went down the steep embankment, bounced hard over the railway at the bottom, and came to a stop almost literally hanging over the water.
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Hope the trucker a dash cam
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a trucker I Gave up dodging morons in cars
You have to hit the fool in the car so the cops won’t think you lied about falling asleep and running out of the road