I-94 - Menomonie WI - EB Semi goes into the Red Cedar River

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  1. NYSuperTrucker

    NYSuperTrucker Light Load Member

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    This from KSTP.com's website.

    Eastbound Interstate 94 is closed, and a driver is missing after a semi slid off the freeway in western Wisconsin.
    The State Patrol says the semi jack-knifed on the snow covered road and landed in the Red Cedar River near Menomonie around 4 a.m. Tuesday.
    A dive team has been called in to search for the semi driver.
    There's no immediate word on the driver's condition. The semi is from Michigan.
    Motorists are being rerouted through Menomonie and back on to the interstate.
    It could be hours before eastbound 94 reopens.


    Credit - http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2951998.shtml?cat=1

    Sure hope they find that driver and he's ok!! Anyone happen to drive past this area yet this morning?
     
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  3. CommDriver

    CommDriver Road Train Member

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    I hope they got out of there but doesn't look like it if divers were called in. It's good to take it slow in these conditions though many don't.
     
  4. BossOutlaw88

    BossOutlaw88 Road Train Member

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    I know I can't afford to get that kind of press. I want to be famous one day, but not this way. RIP to the drivers if they fell into that freezing water.


    {A man is only as good as his word.}
     
  5. Giggles the Original

    Giggles the Original Road Train Member

    awww man.. i hate to hear that...sad indeed
     
  6. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Sad to loose a driver, and doesn't look too good for the passenger.

    GOD SPEED drivers !!
     
  7. BossOutlaw88

    BossOutlaw88 Road Train Member

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    That sounds like suicide

    {A man is only as good as his word.}
     
  8. passingthru69

    passingthru69 Road Train Member

    It's really sad about their deaths, plus reading the other post about the accident in Ont. Another trk. in the river and 2 people die..
     
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