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Meaty mess
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Semi truck collision leaves 40,000 pounds of meat scattered on roadway
By Linda Spice of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Mar. 13, 2009 6:56 a.m.
A two-semi crash in Sheboygan County early Friday left both drivers injured and a mess of 40,000 pounds of meat products scattered across the roadway, sheriff's officials reported this morning.
Emergency crews transported both drivers to St. Nicholas Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the crash, which was reported at 12:57 a.m. near I-43 southbound and County Highway AA in the Town of Holland.
The interstate was closed for several hours but re-opened just before 6:30 a.m.
Dewitt Road, where much of the boxes of meat spilled, will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time during cleanup, according to Sheboygan County sheriff's Lt. Chad Broeren.
Sheriff's deputies investigating the crash learned that that two semi tractor-trailers were both southbound on I-43 when the second semi hit the rear end of the lead semi.
After being struck, the first semi continued southbound and eventually pulled off of the roadway.
The second semi traveled after the initial collision into a guard rail, then a bridge face before rolling several times down the embankment. It came to rest under I-43 on Dewitt Road after spilling its entire load of meat products onto the roadway.
Sheriff's officials report that the semi and trailer sustained severe damage with the passenger compartment and motor separating from the chassis as it rolled.
Photo/Jeffrey Phelps
Meat Products are strewn around near Dewitt Road and I-43 in Sheboygan County Friday after two trucks collided closing the southbound freeway for a while overnight. The freeway is now open but the cleanup is still going on as fire personnel and others clean up the meat.
