Icy conditions cause semi-truck crash near Highway 61 ditch, Winona County MN
TrafficNear Highway 61 in Minnesota, icy roads caused a semi-truck to tip onto its side in a ditch west of Highway 43. Officers monitored another disabled semi amid harsh winter conditions.
Audio|Source: Winona City/County Public Safety
02:37
Transcript:
00:00
Rona 2.
00:03
Do you hear anything on this semi that's laying on its side up here?
00:09
Where's that at, Fred?
00:12
Just west of 43.
00:17
I have not.
00:22
I am just about the Lewiston though, so no, maybe want to call it in, I guess.
00:31
Well, there's a deputy there the way it looks.
00:35
Okay.
00:37
Sounds good, no, I haven't heard anything.
00:40
Not on the patrol channel either, so not blocking or nothing.
00:47
Oh, apparently they're not driving for conditions.
00:54
Does anybody really?
00:59
Well, I had a quick trip go by me with a couple fuel tankers, you know.
01:04
I mean, I know I'm only doing 25, 30 mile an hour, but they weren't slowing down.
01:11
Yeah, it's crazy.
01:12
Then you get some other ones that hit the four waves and go 15.
01:18
I don't get it.
01:21
I guess people drive the way they want and we don't do our job right, so.
01:29
Well, we're stretched pretty thin up here, so I'm doing what I can.
01:36
No, I said I'm just about to Lewiston and I,
01:41
there's not, even if we had that other truck, there ain't nothing we're going to do right now.
01:45
It's blowing and snowing,
01:47
so just keep doing what you're doing.
01:49
We're fine.
01:53
Yep, I hear you.
02:00
That truck on its side though, that wasn't blocking or nothing, right?
02:06
No, he's in that Westbound ditch on the right, so I...
02:12
But he's facing to the east.
02:17
Okay, 10-4[1].
02:21
I'll see what I can go about to semi-year.
02:26
The one that we talked about earlier too is still there.
02:29
I'm just coming up to that area, so I'm going to see if I can get that one.
02:33
If I can't get holding, I'm just going to see if I'm going to come and tow it and get it out of there.
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10-4: Acknowledgement (OK / Message received)
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S Hwy 61, Minnesota
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