Posted on 08/19/2017 5:14:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ASHEBORO — A Friday afternoon accident at the Sunset Avenue overpass in Asheboro caused traffic to be rerouted in and around the area.
The incident was reported at 1 p.m. when a dump truck driven by Jeffrey J. Friedmann of Winston-Salem was traveling northbound on Interstate 73/74. He had just left the McDonald’s construction site on Dixie Drive.
Friedmann told officers he noticed that the dump bed of the truck was beginning to move, according to a report from the Asheboro Police Department.
The dump bed of the 1995 Peterbilt truck struck the support beams of the overpass bridge, causing the dump bed to become detached from the truck. It then struck the railing on the bridge before coming to rest in the outside lane of travel.
“The dump truck tore out some concrete and guardrail of the bridge,” said Andrew Barksdale, public relations officer with the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Divisions 4, 6 and 8.
Damage to the truck, bridge, railing and roadway was estimated to be $150,000.
Traffic was back to normal by 6 p.m. Friday.
Keep an eye on this area, Eclipse Travelers, in case they decide to repair the bridge on Monday.
A non Hispanic driving a dump truck? You’ll have a hard time seeing that in Texas
We must tear down Dixie Drive!
In that case, my own mother needs to change her name.
So this guy was driving along with the bed up, hits the bridge and then that is his story.
Or did he notice the movement after it hit the bridge?
When I worked for an insurance company in San Antonio, I had one co-worker named Texana and another named Texene.
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