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Show Like a helpless giant, this huge truck lays on its tide after wind blew It over a mile east of Panguitch on U.S. Highway 89 last Friday The heavy winds High Winds Blamed For Truck Roll Strong winds, with gusts up to 60 miles per hour were blamed for an accident which caused a large truck to roll over a mile east of Panguitch on U.S. Highway 89. Both the driver, Glen Reidhead, 47, Mesa, Ariz., and the second driver, Lawrence Pfenning, 23, Brookings, Ore., were taken to Panguitch LDS Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries and released. According to the Utah High- ranged up to 60 miles per hour and was blamed for the accident. The truck was carrying some 41,000 pounds of freight when the accident occurred. way Patrol, the truck was northbound when it slowed down to about 30 miles an hour because of the wind. Reidhead said he felt the wind hit the truck extra hard and looked back. He saw that tlie tire on the right side of the unit was off the ground about two feet. " 1 tried to steer into the wind, luii it didn't heto a bit. and over M' V.OIH," he said. K.'n Clements, Utah Highway I'.iirol Trooper, who in- obligated, said the truck traveled some 200 feet from the time the driver first noticed the tire above the road and the time the unit rolled over. Vernie Gutierrez, driver of a irurk behind the Reidhead unit said "I saw the truck start to tip, I tnought a gust of wind would put the truck back down but it didn't it just went right over. I stopped my truck, jumped out and had the door of their truck open in a matter of seconds. Marion Burgess, Panguitch, received a call from Reidhead's ("B radio and reported to Sheriff Keith Fackrell, who called Clements. An ambulance was called. The truck was carrying 44,000 pounds of freight at the time of the accidents. |