Late this morning we were driving north on 176th heading into Cloverdale. At the intersection of 32nd Avenue a tandem trailer gravel truck is pulled over on the shoulder. His second trailer is tipped over and nice soil has spilled out. He was travelling west on 32nd and making a right hand turn on to 176th. Obviously taking the turn a little too fast or he wouldn't have gone overboard. The front part of the truck was upright and the driver was standing on the shoulder and no other vehicles were involved in the accident.
The problem was other vehicles on 32nd Avenue who also wanted to turn right on 176th were having to turn wide and were cutting off traffic on 176th who had the right of way with a green light. Could be dangerous so we called the non-emergency police number to report it but they were already aware of the situation.
Oddly enough we saw a small tractor heading up 176th Street so he may have been heading for the dump truck to scoop up the soil that was on the road. This one would take a tow truck or two to get the second trailer righted again.
I'm not sure how long it would take to get the truck going again, but a couple of hours ago I heard on the radio that a pedestrian had been struck in this intersection. Its not a high pedestrian area for people out taking a walk so perhaps someone dealing with the gravel truck has been struck.
Or perhaps the radio has it wrong.
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