50 Year Old Injured In Logging Truck Accident
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 @ 3:02 PM
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Prince George- The RCMP continue to investigate a morning collision involving two tractor trailer units in the City.
The crash happened just before 8.00 this morning at the intersection of highway 97 and 16 west.
The driver and lone occupant of the logging truck had to be assisted out of the cab of the truck and was transported to the University Hospital of Northern BC with non-life threatening injuries.
Initial investigation has found that the logging truck collided with the rear passenger side of a second tractor trailer unit at the south bound traffic control light. The logging truck then went off road to the right and rolled onto its side.
Traffic control personnel were called in to assist with the removal of the truck and logs. Delays should be expected, particularly for south bound traffic.
The driver of the transport truck was uninjured. The 50 year old Prince George man driving the logging truck is expected to be released from hospital later today.
Comments
Here we go again commercial tractor trailer units …. drive much folks?????
actually gus, lets be fair, commercial (aka professional) drivers drive a lot. Like anything else there are poor class 1 drivers but I would bet the accident statistics would show they are far less likely to cause a crash than everyone else in their cars.
The difference is that most vehicle collisions don’t warrant a news story.
Early shift due to warm weather,suddenly changing your hours from 3 am to 6 pm to 8 pm to 10 am really makes for some dopey drivers.
I believe that all new drivers should be made to ride with logging trucks to see how to drive on our roads. Considering the trucks log up to 650 kms a day for 9 months of the year.
anyone notice his truck number “911” lol
zigzag, local mills have not gone night shift, yet.
Disregard Gus’s comments, he has shown to be biased beyond belief and when he has nothing to copy and past he gets a bit edgy.
Oh by the way gus, why no comments about the 9 passenger vehicles in the ditch between Vanderhoof and Hixon at approx the same time as this incident happened? I guess they were all the fault of poor road conditions and you write an essay on what YRB is doing wrong, but since this one is a commercial vehicle its absolutely the drivers fault in your tilted world.
Livingonwater: I have said the same thing for many years. New drivers should be required several hours of time in a class I vehicle to see what mistakes not to make when driving smaller vehicles.
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