2010-01-14 / Front Page

Log truck loses trailer, load


A Wilkes County truck driver escaped injury Friday morning when his trailer loaded with pine trees, broke loose and rolled over on the Danburg Road. Georgia State Patrol troopers investigating the accident reported that the driver said that the trailer’s kingpin, which connects the trailer to the tractor, broke clean off in a curve near Cherry Grove Baptist Church, allowing the trailer and the load to roll over into the ditch. No one was injured and no other vehicles were involved. A Wilkes County truck driver escaped injury Friday morning when his trailer loaded with pine trees, broke loose and rolled over on the Danburg Road. Georgia State Patrol troopers investigating the accident reported that the driver said that the trailer’s kingpin, which connects the trailer to the tractor, broke clean off in a curve near Cherry Grove Baptist Church, allowing the trailer and the load to roll over into the ditch. No one was injured and no other vehicles were involved.

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