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| Overturned big rig shuts down Anderson County road
Overturned big rig shuts down Anderson County road 12/27/07 Anderson Independent, SC Quote:
ANDERSON COUNTY — For a few harrowing minutes before dawn Thursday, Anderson County rescue workers said a man’s life hung on the quick arrival of a crane.
The feed truck overturned. Its cab was crushed. The trailer went over the edge.
Terri Franks, a paramedic with the Townville Fire Department, said the driver of an 18-wheel feed truck was trapped by his truck’s seat, steering wheel and dash.
Rescue workers could do nothing to free him until a heavy-duty crane arrived to stabilize the trailer, which hung over the bridge.
“Any moment that truck could have rolled on us,” Ms. Franks said.
South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Kathy Hiles said Jimmy Gable of Georgia suffered serious injuries when his Sullen Trucking Company overturned.
Mr. Gable, driver of the grain-laden truck, lost control of his rig about 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Hattons Ford Road, causing the rig to overturn and come to rest on the edge of a bridge over Little Beaver Creek in Anderson County.
Rescue vehicles from Townville and Anderson filled the mostly-residential road, which is off S.C. 24 near Portman Marina.
Mounds of grain piled up on the lake’s shore.
When the crane arrived and attached a cable to the truck, emergency crews, including firefighters, hazardous materials crews, paramedics, freed Mr. Gable.
Ms. Franks said he suffered head and chest injures and was flown by helicopter to Greenville Hospital System.
Grain flowed into the tributary to Hartwell Lake, but crews contained much of it.
People at the scene joked about the geese and fish that were sure to arrive.
Lance Cpl. Hiles said the driver does not appear to have suffered a life-threatening injury.
No other vehicles were involved, she said.
“The tractor-trailer was coming down a hill when its load shifted,” Lance Cpl. Hiles said.
Charges against Mr. Gable are pending, she said.
As crews worked to remove the truck from the bridge, Dale DeWitt sat on his porch, which is across the creek and on its shore.
“I heard a crash,” he said. “It was dark, but I knew there had been a wreck
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