Muddy ditch causes truck to overturn

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette

A tractor-trailer driven by Thomas E. West, 61, of Elkland, Mo., veered off the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 71 about 1:25 a.m. Thursday in Ashdown, Ark., and overturned in the ditch. The truck was carrying frozen chickens. West escaped injury. Crews worked about 12 hours unloading the truck an...

A tractor-trailer carrying frozen chicken veered off U.S. Highway 71 Thursday morning and “was sucked in by the ditch” causing the rig to overturn, said an Arkansas State Police trooper.

The southbound 1992 Kenworth tractor, driven by Thomas E. West, 61, of Elkland, Mo., veered off the we...

Published: 03/13/2009