ICY FREEWAY CRASH MAN MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES WHEN BIG RIG CRUSHES JEEP HE'S SLEEPING IN.Byline: Daily News GORMAN - A man sleeping in his broken down Jeep early Tuesday suffered only minor injuries when a big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. loaded with chemicals ran over his vehicle and slid down a freeway embankment near Gorman. ``Luck, just luck,'' Sgt. Jack Skaggs of the California Highway Patrol's Tejon station said to explain why the sleeping driver was not severely injured or killed. The Golden State (5) Freeway was icy shortly before 6 a.m. when the trucker, heading north toward the Grapevine, drifted to the right shoulder and ran over the Jeep and the small utility trailer it was hauling. The man sleeping inside the disabled Jeep had called for help and was resting while he waited, Skaggs said. The crash closed the northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. freeway for more than two hours, while traffic was diverted through Gorman. A hazardous materials squad from the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La checked the 16 50-gallon barrels carried by the big rig, and determined that the corrosive corrosive /cor·ro·sive/ (kor-o´siv) producing gradual destruction, as of a metal by electrochemical reaction or of the tissues by the action of a strong acid or alkali; an agent that so acts. chemical they held had not leaked, Skaggs said. The trucker told investigators another driver cut him off, forcing him off the road. The driver, hauling a double set of trailers, went about 10 feet over the side of the freeway, Skaggs said. The second trailer was loaded with baby food. The CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan reported ice on the freeway until mid-morning, with fog advisories for poor visibility issued through most of the day. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Crews work to clean up debris after a Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. crash. A crushed Jeep at right is ready to be towed away. (2) A big rig carrying hazardous materials hit a Jeep and veered off Interstate 5 on Tuesday and overturned, but no chemicals were spilled, authorities said. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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