Posted on 06/14/2005 9:27:31 PM PDT by kingattax
HOT SPRINGS - A semi truck hauling several hundred 20-packs of Bud Light swerved to miss a group of deer on Fall River Road last Thursday morning, and ended up on its side near the former location of the Landscape Shoppe, four miles east of Hot Springs.
The contents of the truck were considered a total loss.
South Dakota State Highway patrolman David Birkley said the truck, driven by Richard S. Tracy, 52, of Box Elder, was traveling eastbound on Fall River Road when the driver swerved to miss a group of deer at approximately 6 a.m. The truck then turned on its right side, hit a phone pedestal and power pole and came to a stop in the south ditch.
The driver was not seriously injured, but the impact forced the top of the trailer to rip open, which threw nearly all of the truck's cargo onto the road and into the ditch and nearby yard. While not all of the bottles of beer were ruptured, Patrolman Birkley said Budweiser determined the beer as a total loss and condemned the entire batch, as it was not cost effective to sort through all of the broken bottles to find which ones could be salvaged.
Olson's Trucking of Rapid City was contracted for the cleanup which took two days to complete. The truck was owned by Denny James Trucking of Box Elder, but leased to Bob Gallant Trucking of Piedmont.
The impact on the power pole also caused some additional havoc for area residents. Black Hills Power (BHP) Southern Hills Operations Supervisor Lyle Clapp said that initially 370 people along Fall River Road experienced a power outage. The collision on the power pole sent shock waves down the line, which knocked out the feeder that serviced the area. Most of them however regained service in less than an hour after his crews were able to redirect.
Twenty-three homes, that received service directly from the pole, were without power for approximately six hours, until BHP crews were able to replace the demolished pole.
Despite the phone pedestal also needing to be replaced, Golden West representative Scott Harkless stated that no one was without service during the ordeal
While some would consider several boxes of beer under a Christmas tree a welcomed gift, the driver of this truck was certainly not in a "holiday" mood after swerving to miss a group of deer early last Thursday morning
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Thank God it wasn't real beer!!!
With a rig like that, why did he swerve, he could just drive right through them.
...heres the culprit!!..known for his crazy antics!...
McCain is deeply saddened.
I'm going to buck the trend against animal thread pings and give this one a shot. Mule probably think it's a watse but I doe'nt. A tragedy like this deserves our attention,or elk
others will just ruminate about it.
Oh the humanity!
I'm going to buck the trend against animal thread pings and give this one a shot. Mule probably think it's a watse but I doe'nt. A tragedy like this deserves our attention,or elk
others will just ruminate about it.
Oh the humanity.
Doe you think it is worth it? We could have some fawn with it I guess.
I'm thinking the only thing hauled away were 'empties.'
Oh, deer-
I never herd of such a tragedy.
It moose be investigated.
I've herd it's beer to have pinged and lost than never have pinged at all.
LOL
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