An 18 wheeler caused a bit of a problem in Northeast Jackson today. The Capitol Police issued the following statement.
An 18-wheeler caught a power line wire when traveling through the intersection of Ridgewood Road and Meadowbrook Road. No injuries were reported.
Several active lines are down because of this accident and Entergy has cut the power in the area. The intersection will be closed until cleanup is complete, please use alternate routes.
It is not known who owned the truck at this time.
17 comments:
Really, avoid the area. Tons of lines are down.
Would appear there is more to this story; 18 wheelers are not unusual travelers through that intersection - so wonder if a line was sagging? If so, who's line - Entergy, telephone/cell; COJ traffic signal?
Someone is about to lose a CDL license
I saw the video of the damage. I don't know how on Earth they managed to do that.
Was it a dump truck going down the road in the raised position?
Or a rolloff container truck not fully lowered?
6:11, if you don't know WTF you're talking about, shut up......
A Loooong time ago in a land close by I got a job after school to bush hog a pasture. I was using a Super C Farmall & a Pasture Clipper. About dusk dark I clipped the support wire of a light pole at the edge of the highway. Unbeknownst to be this caused the light wire coming from the other side the highway to sag precariously low...so low in fact that when that west bound chicken truck came by the light wire raked the top two layers of them wooden chicken coops off! Us & all the neighbors ate chicken for 3 months ever night! Stuff Happens...
I remember a number of mornings a long time ago when David L. Archie stood on that very corner while campaigning for the Ward 1 City Council seat. During that campaign he argued that Ward 1 wasn't receiving their fair share of city attention because they weren't represented by a Democrat.
Those were the days.
This past Monday I saw another amateur CDL 18-wheeler stuck turning from northbound State Street to eastbound Pearl Street where you go under the viaduct by Hal & Mal's. Some never learn how to drive.
Looked like Adcamp paving out of Flowood on the truck.
No way this is the fault of the driver or his company. TV cable lines are hung beneath electric and telephone, so guess whose line was the low sagger?
Lowboy could have snagged a guide wire on the pole but then again I wasn't there like the majority commenting. Lets let those involved in and who witnessed the incident hash it out before bashing the driver or the company.
Lines at that intersection have always been pretty low.
I know it's expensive and time consuming but lines need to be buried.
I did not see the accident happen but saw the scene at Meadowbrook as I hoped to turn on Ridgewood Rd. I had to cut through LoHo to get back to Ridgewood . The outrage affected Eastover, Petit Bois and River Hills. The last two were never affected by outages unless they affected Lakeland. We were on the same system as Lakeland. Sadly, the state decided it was more convenient to give our access to the R&D Center area. Given that they aren't 24/7 and don't have people who are sick to care for, nor do they lose money when the lights are off, so this ticks me off!
Indeed, Petit Bois' lines are underground. It is WAY past time for ENTERGY to submit a plan to put all lines underground! In the long run , it saves time and money! Indeed, ALL new developments in the state should be required to have underground lines.
I hope, and surely trust, that all those calling for utility lines - generally singling out Entergy as if they are the only utility with above ground wires - to be buried are prepared to pay multiple times their current utility bills.
Not only are the costs to replace the lines in buring them very expensive, the maintenance of those lines is significantly higher when problems arise. It would be nice if 150 years ago (or whenever, Im not Googling to see when overhead power lines first were installed, because I don't care that much) the thought was that overhead lines was not a great idea, they are ugly, some 18 wheeled horse carriage might run into them, whatever; and they buried them all then but that didn't happen. So today, in most places (not in newly developed neighborhoods like Petit Bois, so don't throw up your Madison stucco woods as an example that all should follow) that's not the case and nobody is prepared to pay the billions it would take just to bury the lines in Jackson.
No need to bash the trucking company, or the driver, unless that is a truck restricted road. The company, and the driver, are to assume the road is safe to travel, unless truck restricted.
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