Call emergency services from the safe location. Video of that accident is included toward the end of the video from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Drive somewhere safe to pull over, since that location is not useful to help from.
Built-up snow had melted into a hard ramp-like buildup against a concrete shoulder. Witnesses told troopers that a Michigan City man was driving a pickup truck northbound on County Line Road when he stopped as he drove onto an overpass over I.
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The driver was then transported to the local hospital.Ī very similar icy overpass accident happened about four years ago according to WISC-TV that took the life of the driver. It acts as an offramp with emphasis on “ramp.” Fortunately when the Milwaukee County Sheriffs arrived the man was conscious and was being attended to by two motorists giving first aid. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The truck driver was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries. Richard Lee Oliver was heading to his mom’s house last Saturday when the. The truck then hit a snowbank on the side of the ramp and fell over the barrier, landing on the highway below. Route 35 went through a guardrail and crashed off of the overpass into into a grassy ravine below. A driver who miraculously survived a 70-foot plunge off a Milwaukee-area overpass is just thankful to be alive. The road crews try their hardest to prevent the buildup of snow just for this reason. The driver, who was not identified, was traveling on I-94 when he skidded on a ramp. RELATED: What Should You Do if Your Car Starts Spinning on Snow or Ice? “The snow is hard as concrete, so a lot of our equipment is out there, basically chipping away … literally chipping away at the snow and ice to get that removed.” The packed snow acts as an offramp with emphasis on “ramp” Pickup truck plunges 70-feet off of Wisconsin overpass | YouTube In the end, it would be worth it, though, because you really can’t put a price on safety, and when road conditions are slippery, snowbanks pose a real threat, especially on a bridge or any type of high-clearing road.“The biggest risk with that is the melting and the freezing creates sort of a ramp, a natural ramp,” Milwaukee County’s Director of Highways and Maintenance Eddie Santiago told WISC-TV. Aerial video showed a gap in the wall and fencing where the truck careened off Akers Mill Road and. Amber Heard flies into New York City and gets off private jet. Of course, some would say that clearing those roadways is no easy task, seen as how that snow has to eventually end up somewhere, which could potentially mean performing multiple passes just to clear one side of the road. One person died when a truck went off the Akers Mill overpass on I-75 on Monday, Aug. Wild video shows box truck slam into overpass railing and burst into flames after being hit by an out-of. While we can only speculate as to why the driver lost control in the first place (the conditions were obviously slippery), we can’t help but wonder how many other similar accidents could have been avoided had somebody plowed all the snow away from the edge of those respective bridges and ramps. 15-501 when he saw the truck go off the bridge. A witness to the dramatic crash, Joseph Gilliam, was driving on U.S. 15-501, with the trailer leaning vertically against the bridge for hours until crews were able to get it down shortly before 9 p.m. In any case, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said two bystanders were initially present at the scene, providing the truck driver with medical aid. The cab appeared to land right side up on U.S. What are the odds of that? It’s not like a piece of toast landing butter-side down. It basically landed in the only manner possible for it to absorb some of the shock from the impact. We just have to point out how incredibly lucky he was that the truck landed on its wheels, and not upside down, on its side, nose first, or even just on two wheels. After the crash, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said 'the driver was. No other vehicles were involved in the crash and the driver was not injured. Here's the moment a driver lost control of his truck and fell 70 feet off an overpass in Milwaukee on Saturday (2/6).
In fact, the man was treated at a nearby hospital only for minor injuries and was even able to exit the wreck on his own two feet. (CBSNewYork) - A complicated cleanup got underway Wednesday afternoon after a truck took out three cars, a pole and a fence before careening off an overpass and landing upside. A crash left a FedEx truck dangling off an overpass onto railroad tracks in Indiana. The truck fell no fewer than 70 feet (21 meters) onto westbound I-94, and according to Fo圆 Milwaukee, authorities found the driver conscious and breathing. The truck then 'rolled over the barrier, overturned' and fell nearly 20 feet off an overpass, landing on Wenworth Avenue below.
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