The city’s overpasses turned Jacksonville into a frustrating maze for the driver of a tractor-trailer hauling an oversized load.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville police officers responded just after noon Monday to a report of the truck\u2019s load striking a traffic light at Main Street and College Avenue as the truck tried to travel east through the intersection.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was coming through town from way over by the Ozarks on his way to Indianapolis and somehow got routed through Jacksonville,\u201d\u00a0Lt. Mark Lonergan said. \u201cHe hit one of the lights. I think before that he also struck a (power) line.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the contact left no visible damage, it knocked out power to the traffic light. Drivers subsequently treated the intersection as a four-way stop for around an hour while a Scott\u00a0Bros. Electric crew made repairs.<\/p>\n
Once officers determined the truck driver had everything required of an oversize load, officers guided him out of town,\u00a0Lonergan said.<\/p>\n
The result was a slow procession of a police cruiser, the tractor-trailer’s escort vehicles and the truck crawling along East College Avenue to East State Street and up to Johnson Street, carefully dodging parked cars, garbage bins out for pickup and a city street sweeper along the way.<\/p>\n
The load \u2014 a tall, black plastic-covered cube that filled most of the length of the tractor-trailer bed and substantially overflowed its width \u2014 brushed overhanging tree limbs along the way and, with the help of a skitter pole designed for the purpose, narrowly missed other powerlines.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem was he couldn\u2019t get under any of the overpasses,\u201d\u00a0Lonergan said. \u201cSouth Main wasn\u2019t going to work\u201d (because of the first overpass on Interstate 72). Eventually we got him out of town on Old Jacksonville Road.\u201d<\/p>\n
No citations were issued,\u00a0Lonergan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an accident,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u00a0kinda felt sorry for the guy. He was following a route he was given, and everywhere he went, there were overpasses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city’s overpasses turned Jacksonville into a frustrating maze for the driver of a tractor-trailer hauling an oversized…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,291032,3188,723,7310,50,7207,291033,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-775329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-pubnow","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116523058655521727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}