News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
A semi-truck slid across the highway into a turnout.
Rain and snow overnight on Saturday set the stage for a potentially disasterous wreck the next morning.
Just after 8 a.m. on Sunday morning, February 12, an eastbound semi-truck lost control on the icy roadway on Highway 20 just west of Sisters.
According to Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office reports, the truck jackknifed and slid across both lanes of the highway.
The truck took out several pylons and a reflector before coming to rest in a pullout on the north side of the highway.
It being early on a Sunday morning, traffic was very light on the highway and no other vehicles were involved in the crash.
No one was hurt.
According to the sheriff’s office, the truck lost some fuel, but since it was less than 50 gallons of spillage, the accident was not considered a “haz-mat” (hazardous materials) incident.
A crew from the Oregon Department of Transportation cleaned up the fuel spill that morning.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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